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VeriSign Will Support DNSSEC In .com By 2011

Posted by kdawson on from the phish-while-you-may dept.

alphadogg writes "VeriSign has promised to deploy DNS Security Extensions, known as DNSSEC, across all of its top-level domains within two years. DNSSEC is viewed as the best way to bolster the DNS against vulnerabilities such as the Kaminsky bug discovered last year. (Yesterday we discussed the workarounds coming into place until the US government signs the Internet's root zone.) DNSSEC has been deployed on top-level domains operated by Sweden, Puerto Rico, Bulgaria, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. Two larger domains — .org operated by the Public Interest Registry and .gov operated by the US government — are deploying DNSSEC this year."

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  1. Verisign is evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    bastards

  2. Re:erm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dan Kaminsky can't simultaneously warn of, fix, and profit from the DNS security holes... So he makes us wait.
    When he can find out some way of making money at the expense of world security, he'll post it on his blog.
    Don't believe me? Check this out - Proof