On 10/16/18 7:08 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> * Brotman, Alexander <[email protected]>:
>> OPENPGPKEY and SMIME/A also use DNSSEC, if you're interested in those 
>> protections for your users.
> 
> Though either, OPENPGPKEY and SMIMEA, have seen wide adoption yet. And
> allthough we wrote smilla <https://github.com/sys4/smilla> to help SMIMEA
> become more popular and a standard as well, I doubt they ever will. There
> isn't enough software out there that makes it easy to use these standards.
> 
> Its good OPENPGPKEY and SMIMEA are there, but they very likely won't be your
> selling points.
> 
> DNSSEC itself is of low value. It's an infrastructure technology. The
> interesting cases are what you can build on top of DNSSEC. It's probably as
> exiting as backup. "Nobody wants it, but..."
> 
> DNSSEC is an investment into your business relationship. Your partners benefit
> from it. It provides them a reliable resource to build other things upon. It
> removes the need to believe and provides the certainty to know. This said, it
> is one of the key stones for responsible dealings on the internet.

Thanks, everyone.  This is helpful.

Jesse
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