On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:30 PM Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@icann.org> wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2021, at 1:19 PM, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote:
> > Remember also that TLS ciphers are negotiated.
>
> A better analogy might be "although TLS key exchange and encryption
> ciphers are negotiated, the signing algorithm on the server's certificate
> is not negotiated". DNSSEC signing is much more akin to the latter, I think.
>
> > There is no negotiation
> > in DNSSEC.
>
> Quite right, just as there is no negotiation for the authentication in TLS.
>

This is not strictly correct: TLS allows both the client and the server to
advertise their supported signature algorithms, which can be used by the
peer to guide certificate selection.

-Ekr
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