DNSKEY

networkingcryptography

Stands for: DNS Public Key (record)

The DNS record that publishes a zone's public signing key.

A DNSKEY record (RFC 4034) holds the public key a resolver uses to verify a zone's DNSSEC signatures. Its hash is published as a DS record in the parent zone, linking the chain of trust.

Also known as: dnskey

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