On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Steven Barth <cy...@openwrt.org> wrote:
> Hi Nikos,
> Is there a reason for not having dnssec by default? If there is a way
> to disable it, I believe it will only be beneficial to have it in.
> The main problem here is that this increase the default image size
> significantly plus we can't even reuse all the added crypto code because
> none of the core or important services use nettle. It would be nice to see
> dnsmasq interacting with a more mainstream embedded crypto library like
> polarssl or so.

On the contrary I'd prefer if it doesn't. Nettle is an open project
under LGPL that anyone can contribute and can be reused by a variety
of software; polarssl is closed commercial project under a commercial
license with a GPLv2 exception.

> Also I would probably let all the DNSSEC deployment and the dnsmasq
> implementation mature a bit more before considering to enable it by default
> for everyone. But thats just my personal opinion.

Well, it will never mature if it is not distributed :)

regards,
Nikos
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