On Oct 13, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:28:46PM +0530,
> Mukund Sivaraman <[email protected]> wrote 
> a message of 176 lines which said:
> 
>> Cons:
> 
> Also:
> 
> * since nameservers names are much longer, you cannot have as many
> NS records in a packet,
> * the future (currently, it is non-existant) cryptographic agility
> will be made harder by this choice, since every algorithm used by
> DNScurve needs to have short keys (a label is limited in size).

Ummm, aren't we forgetting what is for many the much larger cons:

* The nameserver has to do a Diffie-Hellman key agreement with every relying 
party, hugely increasing the CPU load.

* The private key must be online all the time.

* The private key must be shared by all the nameservers.

Remember: DNSSEC is sign-once-and-serve; DNScurve is 
server-does-crypto-for-every-query.

--Paul Hoffman
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