On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 1:04:31 PM UTC-4, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2018, Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy wrote:
> 
> > However, what does this buy us? Considering that the ZSKs are intentionally
> > designed to be frequently rotated (24 - 72 hours), thus permitting weaker
> > key sizes (RSA-512),
> 
> I don't know anyone who believes or uses these timings or key sizes. It
> might be done as an _attack_ but it would be a very questionable
> deployment.
> 
> I know of 12400 512 bit RSA ZSK's in a total of about 6.5 million. And I
> consider those to be an operational mistake.

These are "legacy" zones where ~3 operators are having some trouble getting 
better keys in place, but the swamp is slowly getting drained, a few months 
back the total was ~12900, out of a smaller overall total.  ZSKs are 
predominantly 1024-bit, with a noticeably large minority using 1280 bits.  
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