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Interview With Paul Vixie And David Conrad

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-the-names-work dept.

rwm311 writes: "linuxsecurity.com is running an interview with [Paul Vixie] and [David Conrad] about the ISC and BINDv9. It's a pretty good read. Vixie talks about his days at DEC and his motivation behind BIND while both Vixie and Conrad speak of the future of BIND - features they would like to implement and things that will be going away (such as nslookup)."

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  1. Amusing quote by Azog · · Score: 5
    David Conrad: I look forward to seeing significantly increased use and interest in developing applications based on the RSA algorithm. Hopefully, the easing of US crypto controls earlier this year doesn't mean that someone has figured out how to factor large primes trivially... :-)
    Er, Mr. Conrad, I can factor large primes trivially...

    Seems like everyone makes this mistake sooner or later!

    (for the confused: he meant "factor products of large primes trivially".)


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  2. security by Phexro · · Score: 5

    on security:

    "...it was an indirect goal. We wanted to produce a rock solid, commercial grade, open source DNS implementation in the tradition of BIND..."

    translation: bind 9 will be just as buggy as the old bind!

    "...and with high compatibility with BIND. One important side effect of all that is security."

    is it just me, or does the concept of security as a "side effect" seem very frightening?

    you'd think that with all the problems in the past with bind, they would have considered security to be a primary goal, not a "side effect".
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