Re: Let's move on - Let's DNSCurve Re: DNSSEC is NOT secure end to end

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Or alternatively,

Be liberal in anticipating repeat of past problems, be conservative in
your expectation that new problems will not arise.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker<hallam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Past history is a good indicator of problems that may arise.
>
> Past history is a very bad guarantee that problems will not arise in the future.
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Masataka
> Ohta<mohta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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>>> Past history is no guarantee of future performance.
>>
>> Is your argument applicable to the following statement you just made
>> yesterday?
>>
>> : Trust roots have to be valid for at least a decade to be acceptable to
>> : the application vendor community.
>>
>>> A pattern we see repeated over and over again is that a new control on
>>> some form of Internet crime leads to a dramatic short term reduction
>>> even though the control merely increases the cost of crime, not
>>> eliminates the capability. This is the displacement effect. The
>>> criminals attack weaker targets instead. Once the criminals have
>>> exhausted the supply of easy targets the original targets see a sudden
>>> increase in the crime rate, often orders of magnitude in a few days.
>>
>> Note that, given dynamically generated zones, signature generation
>> mechanisms of DNSSEC is rather weaker targets.
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>>                                                        Masataka Ohta
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