From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are we ready for DNSSEC ?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:52:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a1001231652sbc2692bh75559cf7cca58ef6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eeae7618fa33fc4dd4519a70b4ed354f@ladd.quanstro.net>
> so if you're interested in securing dns, say to prevent ssl
> mitm attacks, i only see three choices
> 1. hold your nose. do dnssec.
> 2. put your head in the sand.
> 3. convince the world to use dnscurve.
if the goal is avoiding ssl mitm attacks,
dns is the least of your worries. a mitm will
just take over the connection attempt for the
actual ip address. the solution there is
to implement proper ssl certificate chain checking.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-24 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-20 13:26 maht
2010-01-20 13:42 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 15:14 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 15:33 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 16:39 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 16:49 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 17:29 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 17:47 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-20 18:17 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 20:11 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-20 19:13 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-23 23:59 ` John Barham
2010-01-24 0:42 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 0:52 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2010-01-24 1:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 1:11 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-24 1:18 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 13:19 ` hiro
2010-01-24 14:57 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 21:49 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-24 22:12 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-24 22:20 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-24 18:14 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-25 20:45 ` Wes Kussmaul
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