Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Speaking of which, Jim Gettys was trying to tell me yesterday that
> BIND refuses to do DNSSEC lookups until the endpoint client has
> generated a certificate.

That is wrong. DNSSEC validation affects a whole view - i.e. it is
effectively global.

Clients can request DNSSEC records or not, regardless of whether they do
any transaction security. Clients can do DNSSEC validation without any
private keys.

Tony.
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