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Re: Proposal to use DNS as public key repository

2003-09-11 20:25:21
The problem with public keys is not distribution... The distributions 
machanisms we have now work fine. it's getting people to generate 
validate and use them.

joelja

 On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:27:25 EDT, Sergey Babkin 
<babkin(_at_)bellatlantic(_dot_)net>  said:
Hello,

I think that I've found an easy way to distribute the public keys:
put them into DNS. The records would look like:

Go to:

http://search.ietf.org/

query 'dns public keys'

Of particular interest:

For SSH public keys: 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-secsh-dns-05.txt

IPSEC keying: 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipseckey-rr-07.txt

See also RFCs 2536-2539,  and all the other DNSSEC RFCs.



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