Format of 'dig -k' "TSIG key file"?

Hauke Lampe list+bindusers at hauke-lampe.de
Sat Aug 22 12:45:19 UTC 2009


Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> It turned out that this latter file was needed, but for some
> inexplicable reason perhaps having to do with library routines [I have
> not gone chasing down the code], it ALSO wants the "mynet.private" file!

The nsupdate manpages mentions this behaviour in the "BUGS" section:

| BUGS
|       The TSIG key is redundantly stored in two separate files. This
|       is a consequence of nsupdate using the DST library for its
|       cryptographic operations, and may change in future releases.

Maybe the dig manpage should, too, until it changes in future releases.


Hauke.
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