Looking for lost generic application/ssl/fingerprint DNS record draft?

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:39:52 +0000, Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de> said:

FW> RFC 4398.  There's still no chain from DNSSEC to transport or
FW> application layer crypto, though.

If everything is signed and you use a validating resolving library (of
which there are a few) you can get secure bootstapping into the client.
We've done this for OpenSSH, for example.
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Wes Hardaker
SPARTA National Security Sector
Cobham Analytic Solutions