In message <[email protected]>, Martin Rex writes:
> Christian Becker wrote:
> > Comparing PKIX and DANE I regularly get asked about the certificate
> > revocation in DANE.
> 
> There is no revocation in DANE.
> 
> There is only expiration through RRSIG Signature Expiriation
> and invalidation through zone key roll-over.
> 
> 
> >
> > In that case the revocation process can only be considered
> > done when the TTL has elapsed.
> 
> TTL is meaningless here.  TTL's purpose is a mere guidance for caching,
> TTL does not provide any security.  It is an unsigned(!!) DNS record attribut
> e
> that an intermediary can make up at will.

TTL is a signed field but instead being a single value it is a
range.  A intermediary can change it but the receiver knows what
the range is supposed to be and can fix any attempt to set it to a
value that is out of range.

> -Martin
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