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Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jul 1 09:23:35 2003
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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:01:40 +1200
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, wsimpson@greendragon.com
Cc: cypherpunks@lne.com
William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> writes:
>Would this be the DHCP working group that on at least 2 occasions when I was
>there, insisted that secure DHCP wouldn't require a secret, since DHCP isn't
>supposed to require "configuration"?
Given that their goal is zero-configuration networking, I can see that being
required to provide a shared secret would mess things up a bit for them. It'd
be a bit like PKIX being asked to make ease-of-use a consideration in their
work, or OpenPGP to take X.509 compatibility into account.
Peter.
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