slightly related past reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#43 Mockapetris agrees w/Lynn on DNS security - (April Fool's day??) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#45 Mockapetris agrees w/Lynn on DNS security - (April Fool's day??) and several much more recent threads: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#4 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#7 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#8 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#9 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#10 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#11 Resolving an identifier into a meaning http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#14 Resolving an identifier into a meaning http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#25 WYTM? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#26 SSL, client certs, and MITM (was WYTM?) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#27 SSL, client certs, and MITM (was WYTM?) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#28 SSL, client certs, and MITM (was WYTM?) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#29 SSL, client certs, and MITM (was WYTM?) http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,86457,00.html?SKC=security-86457 Q&A: DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris on Internet security The critical DNS system is more robust at the top, he said Story by Jaikumar Vijayan OCTOBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Paul Mockapetris invented the Internet's core Domain Name System (DNS), which is a highly distributed hierarchical database that translates Web names into Internet Protocol addresses, and vice versa. Without it, the Internet as it's structured today wouldn't work. In an interview this week with Computerworld, he talked about the state of the DNS a year after the first distributed denial-of-service attack on the system (see story). Why is DNS security such a concern? There was a cybersecurity report that came out of the U.S. government that said the two biggest security issues were DNS and BGP [Border Gateway Protocol]. Part of it is that this is just the place where an attacker has the most leverage. ... If you can get to control either the traffic lights or change the street signs, you can create chaos on the road system. ... snip ... -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
