Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

[Doug Barton]

On 1/14/2010 8:11 AM, Evan Hunt wrote:
>>> We hear you.  Expect a decision in the next few days.
>>
>> So, has the decision been made?
>>
>> [I am tentatively planning on going to 9.7 in production round about Easter,
>> in good time for the RSASHA256-signed root zone in July, but it would be
>> nice to have a fall-back option.]
> 
> I'm sorry, I completely forgot to follow up on this.  Thank you for
> the nudge.
> 
> Yes, we are backporting the SHA-2 algorithms into 9.6.  It will be in the
> next release, which I believe will be called "9.6.2rc1", and will be out
> by the end of this month.  (I expect it to be sooner, actually; I'm just
> hedging my bet.)

Thank you, both for the decision and the followup. :)


Doug

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