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Re: [Asrg] DNS-based Email Sender Authentication Mechanisms: aCritical Review

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Wed, 27 May 2009 16:04 UTC

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Douglas Otis wrote:
> The safest method for deploying DNSSEC could be by using SCTP as a 
> preferred transport for DNS.

Just using TCP would prevent most of the DNS poisoning attacks that 
Amir's paper reports.

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