RFC 2065:Domain Name System Security Extensions
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DNS name


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... Resource records (RRs) are defined to associate keys with DNS names. This permits the DNS to be used as a public key ...


... Object Types, DNS Names, and Keys ...
... This DNS name may refer to up to three different categories of things. For example, dee.cybercash.com could be (1) a zone, (2) a host ...
... host or other end entity , and (3) the mapping into a DNS name of the user or account dee@cybercash.com. Thus, there are flags, as described below, in the KEY RR ...


... maximum number of labels allowed in the current DNS is 127 but the entire octet is reserved and would be required should DNS names ever be expanded to 255 labels. The following table gives some examples. The value of "labels" is at the top, the retrieved owner name on the ...
... authenticated. The signer's name may be compressed with standard DNS name compression when being transmitted over the network ...


... The domain name may be compressed with standard DNS name compression when being transmitted over the network ...



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