Re: DNSCurve vs. DNSSEC - FIGHT! (was OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS)

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 25 February 2010 16:41 UTC

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On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> But SSH would be much better if we could integrate the key
> distribution into a secured DNS.

RFC 4255 "Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key
Fingerprints"

Tony.
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