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Educause Announces Plans To Sign .edu TLD With DNSSEC

Posted by timothy on from the seeping-in-there dept.

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."

3 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hm. by sexconker · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Hm. by localman57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    Best...Double-Entendre...Ever...

  3. Re:Hm. by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would be like if your car's PCV valve required a permissive signal from the EGR valve via CAN-BUS linkage to MPI and DOHC. The ECR module would then TBI the MPG and various other RWHPs. Failing that the EFI unit ATF AC unit BTDC more of the CCs than CUINs. As long as your crank was CCW and you had COPI you would be good to go. Unless the CTVS was broken. In which case both your FWD and 4WD was unusable. You'd need to measure MAP and calibrate the VSS or you'll go WOT, and with NOS then you will likely exceed the allowable RPMs.

    DOHV. OD. LED taillights. HO engine. blah blah blah.

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    "Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State