Re: Possibly questionable security decisions in DNS root management

2009-10-16 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com writes: Do we really believe we won't be able to attack a 1024 bit key with a sufficiently large budget even in 10 years? ... Currently, the cryptographic cost of an attack is ... 0. How many attacks have there been? Perhaps the perceived value of owning

Re: Possibly questionable security decisions in DNS root management

2009-10-16 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:43:48PM -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote: If the constraints elsewhere in the system limit the number of bits of signature you can transfer, you're stuck. Presumably over time you'd want to go to a more bit-efficient signature scheme, perhaps using ECC. Even plain