Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT!

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* Masataka Ohta:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>>>As DNSCurve protection is like DH, it is subject to MitM attacks,
>>>which is no different from simple nonce.
>
>> I think the expectation is that you learn the server names (and hence
>> their keys) of child zones from parents, under DNSCurve's
>> cryptographic protection.  This is slightly different from plain DH.
>
> No, it is not expected that gtld servers will become
> "???????????????????????????????????????????????????.gtld-servers.net",
> only to cause message size overflow.

Wouldn't compression kick in if they shared keys (assuming that
DNSCurve doesn't sift the key from only the first label), making the
overhead negligible?

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