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Re: [DNSOP] Pointless FUD and confusion about DNSSEC deployment

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 18 August 2008 16:05 UTC

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At 1:27 PM +0100 8/18/08, Jim Reid wrote:
>The fact is DNSSEC is the *only* game in town for preventing cache poisoning.

Note the subject of this particular thread. A more carefully-worded 
sentence would be "The fact is DNSSEC is the *only* game in town for 
completely preventing cache poisoning." We have methods to reduce an 
attacker's ability to poison caches effectively.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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