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Re: Summary of the LLMNR Last Call

2005-09-20 10:58:56
DNSsec is very important for other reasons, such as the current 
pharming attacks.  The risks have been known in the security community 
since at least 1991, and publicly since at least 1995.  The long-
predicted attacks are now happening.  We really need to get DNSsec
deployed, independent of mDNS or LLMNR.  Given that there is now some 
forward progress on DNSsec, it's not at all unreasonable for either or 
both of those specs to rely on it to solve some of their particular 
security risks.

Couldn't agree more.  But if I'm not mistaken, the current DNSSEC 
specifications do not mandate that DNS stub resolvers be DNSSEC-aware 
validating, which is what would be required for use in a peer-to-peer name 
resolution protocol.  There is also the DNSEXT WG edict that mDNS/LLMNR 
not share a cache with DNS, which makes it difficult for mDNS/LLMNR to 
utilize trust anchors or acquired keys present in the DNS cache. 

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