Re: Question re prevention of enumeration with DNSSEC (NSEC3, etc.)

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

For some reason NANOG is quoting my original reply in base64 encoding. I did not specify that on my end, so I’m not 
sure what is going on here.

  -mel

> On May 7, 2022, at 12:08 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
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