[dns-operations] .edu domain algorithm recommendation

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Tue Aug 17 17:53:37 UTC 2010


[ snippage ]

On 08/17/2010 04:17, Rose, Scott W. wrote:

> RSA/SHA-256 is relatively new, so not a lot of validators understand
> it yet.  It's considered superior (NIST recommends it over RSA/SHA-1
> for PKI), but there is a lot of older code out there that doesn't
> understand it. To those resolvers, your zone would be provably
> insecure - just like traditional DNS.

... and the root.

> - there isn't enough validation to really justify starting with an
> older algorithm.

+1


Doug

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