Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 1/14/2010 8:11 AM, Evan Hunt wrote: >>> We hear you. Expect a decision in the next few days. >> >> So, has the decision been made? >> >> [I am tentatively planning on going to 9.7 in production round about Easter, >> in good time for the RSASHA256-signed root zone in July, but it would be >> ni

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2010-01-14 Thread Evan Hunt
> >We hear you. Expect a decision in the next few days. > > So, has the decision been made? > > [I am tentatively planning on going to 9.7 in production round about Easter, > in good time for the RSASHA256-signed root zone in July, but it would be > nice to have a fall-back option.] I'm sorry,

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 15 2009, Evan Hunt wrote: (Doug Barton wrote) BIND 9.6.2 is in the "b1" phase atm, which means that there is plenty of time to get SHA2 in there and get the release out before a signed root goes live. I encourage the folks at ISC to do so, and if you agree I encourage you to make your vo

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Chris Tho mpson writes: > (But it's not too obvious to me that adding support for a new signing > algorithm should necessarily be considered a "major functional change".) If it was *just* adding a new signing algorithm then yes it would be a minor change. A lot more happened under t

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Evan Hunt
> BIND 9.6.2 is in the "b1" phase atm, which means that there is plenty > of time to get SHA2 in there and get the release out before a signed > root goes live. I encourage the folks at ISC to do so, and if you > agree I encourage you to make your voice heard. We hear you. Expect a decision in th

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Doug Barton
Evan Hunt wrote: >> BIND 9.6.2 is in the "b1" phase atm, which means that there is plenty >> of time to get SHA2 in there and get the release out before a signed >> root goes live. I encourage the folks at ISC to do so, and if you >> agree I encourage you to make your voice heard. > > We hear you.

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Doug Barton
Chris Thompson wrote: > (Evan Hunt) >> Adding SHA-2 to 9.6.x would violate our policy of making major >> functional changes only in major releases, so I don't expect we'll >> do that. Given the odd circumstances you mentioned, I won't say for >> certain that we won't--but I doubt it. >> >> 9.7.0 i

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:05:40PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote a message of 44 lines which said: > While this reminder is timely and helpful, more welcome would be the > news that BIND 9.6.2 is going to have actual support for > RSASHA{256|512}. No, it won't. Migrating to >= 9.6.1 is necessary t

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 15 2009, Doug Barton wrote: While this reminder is timely and helpful, more welcome would be the news that BIND 9.6.2 is going to have actual support for RSASHA{256|512}. My cursory reading of the 9.6.2b1 code does not seem to indicate that it does, although I would be happy to be proven

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-14 Thread Doug Barton
While this reminder is timely and helpful, more welcome would be the news that BIND 9.6.2 is going to have actual support for RSASHA{256|512}. My cursory reading of the 9.6.2b1 code does not seem to indicate that it does, although I would be happy to be proven wrong. I personally don't think it's

Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-14 Thread Mark Andrews
With upcoming deployment of RSASHA256 to sign the root zone, ISC would like to remind BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1 users that use DLV, but have not yet upgraded, that they will need to upgrade to a more recent version of BIND 9.6.x as BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1 will not correctly handle RSASHA25