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Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Jul 29 23:33:18 1997

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 97 20:25 PDT
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

> this statement bothers me.  certainly without DNSSEC there can be no 
> *assurances* of security,

While there are often assurances of security, there can never be assurance
of security.

> there is a gaping chasm between the current system and DNSSEC that could
> be closed significantly with proper design.
>
> simply stating that until DNSSEC arrives these attacks are going to be 
> allowed is a copout.

Send code.

randy

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