Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS
tytso@mit.edu Wed, 24 February 2010 16:48 UTC
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To: Joe Baptista <baptista@publicroot.org>
Subject: Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS
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I'm not a lawyer, and neither is Bruce Schneier who is quoted in the article below, but I suspect he's studied the ECC patent situation more than I have (and I looked it quite a bit back when I was chairing ipsec). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents If it were up to me, I'm not sure I'd want to bet the DNS infrastructure on whether or not patent lawyers with shark-skin briefcases want to make a mint by instigating a lawsuit. As we've seen with the SCO lawsuit, even completely groundless legal disputes can take years and years, and the only winner is the lawyers. And we've seen how much public key deployment was held back because of the RSA patents; and most people who have lived through those dark times really don't want to revisit them again. As I told the Certicom folks over a decade ago, the best way they could make their (hardware implementation) patents more valuable is by explicitly making a non-assert pledge regarding software implementations of ECC. That would have cleared away a lot of the hesitation around using ECC, since regardless of whether the claims of ECC proponents that "no really, there's no problems here!" are true or not, it would have calmed the fears who've looked at the situation and who have perceived real risks. Of course, the Certicom folks didn't listen to me back then, and I doubt any of them would listen to me now.... - Ted
- OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve t… Joe Baptista
- RE: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Joe Baptista
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… tytso
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Dave CROCKER
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Martin Rex
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Wes Hardaker
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Tony Finch
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Paul Wouters
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Paul Hoffman
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Paul Hoffman
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Steven M. Bellovin
- DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS today a… Shane Kerr
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Tony Finch
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… David Conrad
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Tony Finch
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Paul Wouters
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Paul Hoffman
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Tony Finch
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Marc Petit-Huguenin
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Paul Hoffman
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Andrew Sullivan
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Mark Andrews
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Joe Baptista
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Basil Dolmatov
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Tony Finch
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! Florian Weimer
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Martin Rex
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Paul Wouters
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Paul Wouters
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… David Conrad
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Paul Wouters
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Tony Finch
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… Paul Wouters
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Paul Wouters
- Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCur… David Conrad
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Joe Abley
- RE: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Hollenbeck, Scott
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Shumon Huque
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! Florian Weimer
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Joe Baptista
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… David Conrad
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Tony Finch
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Paul Wouters
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Wassim Haddad
- PKIgate Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Shumon Huque
- Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS tod… Masataka Ohta