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Re: DNSSEC to be strangled at birth.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Duchovni)
Thu Apr 5 15:54:48 2007
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:13:24 -0400
From: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> Afternoon all,
>
> This story is a couple of days old now but I haven't seen it mentioned
> on-list yet.
>
> The DHS has "requested the master key for the DNS root zone."
>
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87655
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/dns_master_key_controversy/
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/1725221
The story makes no sense, so I am inclined to discount it. This is a
signing key, not an encryption key, there is no reason for the DHS to
have it, so I am assuming that they won't have it, and perhaps the story
is the result of confusion/incomptence somewhere.
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