On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Nicholas Weaver
<nwea...@icsi.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> No its not.  All you have to be willing to do is release the constraint on
> "all signatures offline".  Doing online signatures allows all the CDN
> functionality you want to be DNSSEC validated (not like DNSSEC really does
> much good for A records anyway...).
>

There's no incompatibility between offline signing and returning different
answers to different source IPs; just sign every variant.

And even 4096b RSA signatures only take a handful of milliseconds to
> construct on the fly, you can cache signature validity for minutes even in
> the very dynamic case, and this is one of those operations that parallelize
> obscenely well.
>

You won't survive a trivial DOS from a wristwatch computer with that
approach :) Having static answers around greatly increases capacity, by
many orders of magnitude.

-- 
Colm
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