Next release of Net::DNS::SEC will support  ECDSA and ECC-GOST

Dick Franks
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On 19 January 2015 at 15:17, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, January 19, 2015, Francis Dupont <francis.dup...@fdupont.fr>
> wrote:
>
>>  In your previous mail you wrote:
>>
>> >  Currently a number of validators don't do ECC, because of the openssl
>> >  library from the distribution they are using doesn't include support.
>> >  This makes ECC an unsupported algorithm, and so it "fails open" (See
>> >  RFC4035, Section 5.2, around "If the validator does not support any of
>> >  the algorithms"...). Geoff also has a good blog post
>> >  (http://labs.apnic.net/blabs/?p=544) and presentations at various
>> places
>> >  (e.g: https://ripe69.ripe.net/presentations/135-18-2014-11-01-ecc.pptx
>> ).
>>
>> => This very unfortunate fact is IMHO the major (and perhaps only) issue
>> to solve before deploying ECDSA (and solve the RSA/SHA-1 vs RSA/SHA-2
>> question).
>
>
>
> Unfortunately not the only - we also need the registrars to accept ECDSA.
> But yes, this is annoying- rolling the DNSSEC root key to ECDSA would be
> very cool, as we could then fit 2 signatures well within the IPv6 MTU.
>
> Oh, as was pointed out earlier, Google Public DNS does ECDSA.
>
> W
>
>
>>
>> >  I suggest that folk whose ssl libraries don't support ECC should
>> >  figure out why (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6090 and also
>> >  Geoff's blog post for some background) and then recompile with
>> >  support[0].
>>
>> => I can't say more.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> francis.dup...@fdupont.fr
>>
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>
> --
> I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea
> in the first place.
> This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
> regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of
> pants.
>    ---maf
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