DNSKEY Validation

Mark Elkins mje at posix.co.za
Tue Jul 14 07:15:25 UTC 2009


OK - so I accept that the algorithm will change.

What about some sort of validation of the base-64 part of the key?
Is there a checksum byte/word?
Is there a way of checking that the length is correct?

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:56 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <4A5B1BDC.3090402 at gis.net>, Danny Mayer writes:
> > Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 08:42:27PM +0200,
> > >  Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote 
> > >  a message of 31 lines which said:
> > > 
> > >>         Arg 3 should be 5 (or maybe 3) - the algorithm.
> > > 
> > > No, you must bnot use a hard-wired list in your code, because the list
> > > of algorithmps registered at IANA can change.
> > 
> > It better not otherwise you would have horrendous interoperability problems.
> > 
> > Danny
> 
> 	Change includes extend. :-)
> 
> 	Mark
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