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Re: [resend] Use of DNS to distribute keys

1993-09-16 12:11:00
That was not my question.  My question was

         What assurance features or mechanisms are going to be used
         throughout the DNS that will make all of us trust all of
         those servers for all of our applications?

It doesn't matter.  You take the certificate you get back from the
server and do a cryptographic check back to the root key.  That is a
known problem (How do you trust a key that someone sends to you in the
mail anyways?  Same method!)

The biggest problem, currently, is getting DNS to deliver such large
pieces of data.  That seems to be the more pressing problem.  We
solved certificate verification in the creation of certificates.

-derek

         Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
     Secretary, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
            warlord(_at_)MIT(_dot_)EDU       PP-ASEL        N1NWH


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