On 2013-05-31, at 11:02, Ken A <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is keeping nameserver vendors from building this into servers?

DNSCrypt provides channel security. The rhetoric surrounding it for a long time 
promoted its use as a replacement for DNSSEC, and that promotion faltered 
because it's not an obvious replacement (DNSCrypt and DNSSEC do different 
things).

As a replacement for TSIG or SIG(0) between stub resolvers and upstream 
validators it might have a use. But "replacement" is the wrong word, because 
nobody secures those channels today; this leaves DNSCrypt looking like a 
solution to a problem that nobody is really acknowledging out loud that they 
have.

DNSCrypt is quite clever, I think. I don't think it's a lack of cleverness that 
is stopping it from making progress. OpenDNS arguably have a better shot at 
encouraging its deployment than the original authors, since OpenDNS have paying 
customers to talk to (and are no longer talking about it in terms of replacing 
DNSSEC).


Joe

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