One of the things that I was thinking about years ago when DNSSEC was
young, and mDNS was first talked about was using mDNS to exchange DNSSEC
chains for FQDNs.

So, you and I, sitting in a meadow (I always think about Bloom
County... in this context) change use mDNS to find each other, and then,
I can give you an additional area like this:

.                       172800  IN      DNSKEY  256 3 8 AwEA...
gov.                    86400   IN      DNSKEY  256 3 7 AQO+tGAvoICmi...
whitehouse.gov.         7200    IN      DNSKEY  257 3 7 Av//sEnVpZw40...
billthecat.whitehouse.gov.  60  IN      DNSKEY  257 3 7 FOOBAR

which would permit you to validate who I am, even though neither of
have connectivity at the time.. I would cache my DNSSEC path, and of
course, we each would already have the root DNSSEC key. (no different
than how PKIX works...)

I see signposts as being additional local trust anchors that can be
used.




-- 
Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works 


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