Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking?

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Sep 16 18:00:45 UTC 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:59:40 PDT, bmanning at karoshi.com said:
> DNSsec will work properly with wildcards, regardless of where they are
> in the DNS.

Which means that a rogue DNS can lead you down the garden path and
DNSsec won't give you a clue that you're being lied to.  It's the same
question as the "what happens to SSL to a phantom site?" - Verisign can
provide an A record for the server and an SSL cert that will work.
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