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  • Subject: [ga] DNS Inventor Tackles Flaw
  • From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:27:09 -0800

All,

  As an FYI, see:

"Dr Paul Mockapetris is looking to
http://www.itpro.co.uk/608076/dns-inventor-tackles-flaw fix the flaws in

the Domain Name System he helped invent. 'It was never meant to be the
only security mechanism for naming data on the internet, but was
intended for additional security measures to be added to it later.' 
The flaws, first uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky over 
the summer, lets attackers
http://www.itpro.co.uk/605520/timeline-kaminsky-s-dns-vulnerability
redirect genuine URLs to malicious ones a problem Mockapetris believes
could be solved using digital signatures."

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