Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-25 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:01:31 -0700 (PDT), Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:39:51PM +, Fergie wrote: Hmmm. It wouldn't have anything to do with prime numbers, now would it? :-) Well, yes, but there are an infinite number of them. Of

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Gall
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:41:41 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Paul, what exponent does the new key use? (I clicked on the public key link, but I can't decode the base64 that easily...) Here's a fairly simple way to extract e: $ for rdata in `dig dlv.isc.org. dnskey +short

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On 21 Sep 2006 17:01:45 +, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, what exponent does the new key use? (I clicked on the public key link, but I can't decode the base64 that easily...) it was made with bind9's

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Fergie
Hmmm. It wouldn't have anything to do with prime numbers, now would it? :-) - ferg -- Joseph S D Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Steve has pointed out that 3 is recommended for DNSSEC, and NIST likes 65537 [2^16 + 1]. I don't have the maths to say why, so I'll leave it at that. --

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:39:51PM +, Fergie wrote: Hmmm. It wouldn't have anything to do with prime numbers, now would it? :-) Well, yes, but there are an infinite number of them. Of course, 17 is the most prime of them all. -- Joe Yao

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Gregory Hicks
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:55:39 -0400 From: Joseph S D Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fergie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:39:51PM +, Fergie wrote: Hmmm. It wouldn't have anything

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:29:31 -0400, Joseph S D Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not having committed the maths to heart, I might be able to explain it a little differently. Well, yes, I did just teach the RSA equations to my Network Security class --Steven M. Bellovin,

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-22 Thread Fergie
But of course. So ask yourself; What is special about 3 and 65537? - ferg -- Joseph S D Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:39:51PM +, Fergie wrote: Hmmm. It wouldn't have anything to do with prime numbers, now would it? :-) Well, yes, but there are an infinite

fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Vixie
fyi: ---BeginMessage--- EARLY KEY ROLLOVER --- In light of the recently announced OpenSSL security advisory: RSA Signature Forgery (CVE-2006-4339), ISC has instigated an early rollover of the DLV Key Signing Key (KSK). ISC reccomends reconfiguration of resolvers to use the DLV KSK published on

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Paul, what exponent does the new key use? (I clicked on the public key link, but I can't decode the base64 that easily...)

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-21 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Vixie wrote: fyi: My mail reader can sanitize HTML mail for me, but it was stymied by this one. What is it? -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vixie) writes: EARLY KEY ROLLOVER --- In light of the recently announced OpenSSL security advisory: RSA Signature Forgery (CVE-2006-4339), ISC has instigated an early rollover of the DLV Key Signing Key (KSK). ISC reccomends reconfiguration of resolvers to use

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On 21 Sep 2006 17:01:45 +, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, what exponent does the new key use? (I clicked on the public key link, but I can't decode the base64 that easily...) it was made with bind9's dnssec-keygen utility, using the -e option, so... -e use large