RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread marcus.sachs
DNSSEC is not a PKI. There are no CAs and no X.509 certificates. It's a chain of trust that can be validated using public/private key pairs. OK, that's oversimplification but you get the idea. While we wait for applications to become DNSSEC-aware, if your local DNS server can be trusted (a

New Intercage upstream

2008-09-12 Thread marcus.sachs
Looks like they found a new willing partner. AS32335 PACIFICINTERNETEXCHANGE-NET - Pacific Internet Exchange LLC. http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595 http://www.pacificinternetexchange.net/ Marc

Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole

2008-08-27 Thread marcus.sachs
Nothing will change. You think DNSSEC is hard? Try getting support for the deployment of S-BGP or soBGP. Without a trust anchor and lots of community support it will remain largely an academic interest area. Marc --Original Message-- From: Gadi Evron To: Frank Cc: NANOG list Sent:

Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole

2008-08-27 Thread marcus.sachs
Yes, wonderful preso! My biggest take-away was the fact that the vast majority of the attendees did not understand the gravity of the demo. The same thing could be said about Dan's talk. It was over the heads of most attendees. Marc --Original Message-- From: Gadi Evron To: Sachs,

Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole

2008-08-27 Thread marcus.sachs
I'll have to admit that the TTL manipulation was something I had not thought about. But why not? If you are going to purloin EVERY packet then why not re-write byte 8 in every IP header to a value of your choosing? Very cool. Marc --Original Message-- From: Jason Ross To: Sachs,

RE: Paul Vixie: Re: [dns-operations] DNS issue accidentally leaked?

2008-07-24 Thread marcus.sachs
Here's some older ones: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/cgi-bin/searchbyname?name=hosts.txt Prior to departing SRI last year I spent a bunch of time trying to find some of the old SRI-NIC records. It appears that they were all cleaned out once the contract was closed and the Internet was