Subject: nsec3

From: Mark Andrews <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:52:27 +1000

The nsec3 rdata needs to say how many labels to strip
	off the ownername to get the zone or to put it another
	way.  How many labels hold the hash.

	Currently this is 1 but you don't need that big a hash
	before you exceed 35 bytes (the largest you can encode
	with base32 into a single label).  SHA512 would fit
	happily into 2 labels (48 + 56) if we were to break the
	presentation into multiple of 8 characters.  This would
	also allow for easy decoding as you wouldn't have to
	reassemble the characters to decode.  You could just
	decode each label independently.  

	Mark
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