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

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On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:26:42PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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.

That's what I hoped, thanks.

						- Ted




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