Re: VerifyHostKeyDNS, was Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Tomas Mraz wrote:

>>
>>> And if this malicious DNS administrator controls the caching
>>> nameserver you're using for DNS queries, he can present you ANY data
>>> even 'valid' fake DNSSEC data.
>>
>> This is not generally true. Resolver libraries can (and should, IMHO)
>> verify DNSSEC themselves. Otherwise DNSSEC is somewhat pointless,
>> because it is precisely when you are stuck behind an untrusted Wifi
>> gateway that you need DNSSEC the most.
> Yes, they can and should. But they don't.

We're testing ftp://ftp.xelerance.com/dnssec-trigger/ and I hope it can
get integrated into Fedora.

It means running dnssec aware resolvers on the endnode, with as much use
as possible od dhcp obtained dns server caches.

Paul
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