Re: [perpass] A reminder, the Network is the Enemy...

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 03 December 2013 14:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] A reminder, the Network is the Enemy...
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 08:56:26AM -0800,
 Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> wrote 
 a message of 112 lines which said:

> Actually spoofing DNSSEC replies even with knowledge of the root key
> is going to be difficult...

Very convincing reasoning. But I would feel better if it were actually
tested in a lab with common resolvers. Any volunteer here?