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Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Wed, 24 February 2010 17:05 UTC

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On 2/24/2010 8:50 AM, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> 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.


right.

(shudder)

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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