> On Jan 23, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------- > In message <[email protected]>, Warner Losh > write > s: > >> The CRC shows that you have internally consistent data. It really only >> catches DNS servers that tell lies for the purpose of redirecting traffic. >> It wouldn’t catch a crafty DNS server that was telling a coherent lie >> for nefarious purposes. > > Uhm, that crafty DNS server would surely be able to come up with a new > non-eyebrow-raising CRC8 value as well...
That’s my point. If someone wanted to lie to you about the number of leap seconds, rather than just tell a general lie about an IP address, the CRC won’t protect you. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
