On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:14:20PM +0200, Raphaël Gertz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (This is a repost to the mailing list as requested by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews)
> 
> I am working on a letsencrypt client and read your draft.
> 
> I am thinking that there is (maybe) an incoherence and complication in the
> DNS challenge.
> 
> If I understood correctly your draft, dns record MUST be like this :
> _acme-challenge.example.com. IN TXT digest(token.thumbprint)
> 
> The small problem is with a rsa key of 4096 length, the digest has a length
> of 684 in my case.
> 
> The complication is that popular dns server and provider don't accept
> txtdata of more than 255 characters.

Huh, the way I read it, the TXT payload is base64url encoding of SHA-256
digest, which always has length of 43 characters (since SHA-256 outputs
32 bytes), which is well under 255 bytes.


-Ilari

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