RFC 2065:Domain Name System Security Extensions
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signed data


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... security aware resolver reliably learns the public key of the zone, it can verify, for signed data read from that zone, that it was properly authorized and is reasonably current. The expected implementation is for the zone private key ...


... digital signature. This field helps optimize the determination of the original form thus reducing the effort in authenticating signed data. ...



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