Re: md5 checksum server

From: Mike Hoskins (mike@adept.org)
Date: 10/10/02 

Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> DNS isn't the right place for this.

You could make the same arguments about portsdb.org...

> 1) it requires DNSSEC to ensure the MD5 record data isn't forged

Easy enough.

> 2) DNS caching would hide updates for the duration of the TTL
> attached to the TXT record

Tuneable.

I didn't say this was ideal, but it's easy to setup does work in the wild
now for some datasets. Regardless, I'm not attached to any one
proposal... Feel free to make others. :)

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