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Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue


From: Brian Smith <pingwin () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:54:14 -0400

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On 09/27/2011 07:55 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
the goal behind this would be integrity, not confidentiality. The objective of using SSL is not to strongly encrypt data to keep it secret, it's to apply whatever is necessary to provide a level of integrity assurance.

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If all you want is integrity then shouldn't you argue that every computer should operate a DNSSEC validating recursive resolver on the machine? After all that is the point of DNSSEC after all isn't it, the validation of DNS records for endpoint authenticity.

Even still SNI isn't even widely supported by the major browsers as I understand it.

just my 2c


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