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Registry Coalition Backs DNSSEC

2008-12-07 08:03:39 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...DNSSEC . The DNSSEC Industry Coalition includes prominent registries and registry operators PIR, Afilias, EDUCAUSE and, of course, VeriSign. The members work together "...to establish a consistent set of tools and applications, shared best practices, specifications and shared nomenclature." Certainly registries are important in the enabling...
 
Tags: dnssec, top-level domains, registry operators pir, registries, domains, domain registries, consistent set, root zone, recent column
 
 
 
 
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New Open-Source DNS Server Supports DNSSEC

2008-05-20 10:35:23 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...DNSSEC, a version of DNS that uses public-key cryptography to protect DNS results, from begriming. Unbound and BIND are the only open-source recursive DNS servers that support DNSSEC. BIND is bewilderingly popular considering its reputation and performance, and a great deal of this must be due to it being open source and free. After BIND, the...
 
Tags: dns, dns servers, authoritative dns servers, popular recursive dns, recursive, protect dns results, source, unbound, bind
 
 
 
 
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DNSSEC and Root Zone Signing

2008-11-24 11:15:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
I posted a " Position on DNSSEC and Root Zone Signing" commentary over on the Security Practice Blog
 
Tags: root zone, security practice blog, dnssec, commentary, position
 
 
 
 
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No, FISMA Doesnt Require That, Silly Product Pushers

2008-07-31 14:36:31 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...DNSSEC Press Releases FISMA Act encourages U.S. government agencies to configure their DNS servers to the DNSSEC security specifications set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and it has been reported that the federal government s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans to begin enforcing DNSSEC requirements through an...
 
Tags: fisma, fisma requires, fisma act encourages, stamp fisma, dnssec, dnssec requirements, dns, standard, dns servers
 
 
 
 
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Root of Trust ?

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2008-09-29 18:33:27 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
...DNSSEC The basic idea of DNSSEC is that when you get an answer from the DNS it will be signed by someone you trust. At some point the trust anchor for the system will be . the DNS root, but for the moment theres just a handful of trust anchors one level down from that. One such anchor is the .se country code domain for Sweden. Additionally,...
 
Tags: key, public key servers, trust, iis root key, key 0xf440ee9b, pgp, pgp nyckel-id, public key server, pgp key
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...DNSSEC could theoretically be used to mitigate some of the problems I must say I haven't kept up with OpenID as much as I'd like to, and so I'm 99% sure lots of the nuance of Ben's proposal was lost on me Session 2: Browser Security Models and Isolation Collin Jackson and Adam Barth . Beware of Finer-Grained Origins Collin Jackson...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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Who's Behind the Georgia Cyber Attacks?

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2008-08-14 10:16:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...DNSSEC" mentality, certain news articles also try to wrongly imply that there's no Russian connection in these attacks , and that the attacks are not "state-sponsored", making it look like that there should be a considerable amount of investment made into these attacks, and that the Russian government has the final word on whether or not its...
 
Tags: attacks, georgia cyber attacks, warfare, departamental cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, information warfare concept, information warfare, russian, russian oligarchs
 
 
 
 
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VeriSign, NeuStar and others team on DNS security

2008-12-09 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Seven leading domain name vendors have formed an industry coalition to work together to adopt DNS Security Extensions, known as DNSSEC
 
Tags: industry coalition, domain, vendors, dnssec
 
 
 
 
 
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