Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC

jhutkd writes "Educause (who run the .edu gTLD) announced today that they will deploy DNSSEC and sign the .edu zone by the end of March 2010. This will enable all educational institutions to benefit from deploying DNSSEC via the secure delegation hierarchy starting with IANA's ITAR (a temporary surrogate for the root zone signing), going through .edu, down to schools, and potentially leading all the way down to individual departments. Unlike larger gTLDs like .org, the churn of adding new and deleting old zones in .edu is much lower (due to the fact that there are tight controls on who may register for a delegation). Thus, many of the hassles of adding new DS records and maintenance procedures might be more manageable and help speed DNSSEC's rollout in this branch of the DNS hierarchy."

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[sexconker]

The itnernets is a freeway.
Each top level domain is a lane on that freeway.
The .edu lane on the freeway will soon be secured with DNSSEC.

DNSSEC is basically a signature on all the freeway signs.

school.edu - 5 miles

becomes

school.edu - 5 miles
-Signed by school.edu

This way those punks at pornschool.com can't put up their own fake freeway signs that say "school.edu - next exit" in an attempt to make you get off when you don't want to.