How secure is rndc?

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:11:44AM -0600, Len Conrad wrote:
> >What I cannot say for sure is whether RNDC is fully encrypted or just
> >"signed."
> 
> TSIG is signed packets, the packet contents being cleartext.
> 
> TSIG guarantees that
> 
> 1. the packet sent is identical to the packet received.
> 
> 2. the sender and recipient share the same key.
> 
> the intent is not to hide/encrypt the packet contents

So people can see whether I just have reloaded or stopped my server. I
do not have a big problem with that.

Thanks for helping.

Greetings
Marc

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