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Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-base-02 // Parent signing security considerations

2006-06-01 11:38:33

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Douglas Otis wrote:

There should be a security consideration mentioning an unintended consequence when a different entity controls sub-domains of a high level domain. This could be viewed as an ICANN, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AfricNIC, RIPE NCC,

Could you explain what the ip registries (ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC,
RIPE) have to do with domain-based authentication protocol?

Note: they do indirectly if somebody hijacks ip address of dns server, but
the what Doug is talking about does not seem to be it.

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net
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