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Re: A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking


From: Nico Cartron <nicolas () ncartron org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:25:07 +0100



On 26 Feb 2019, at 21:58, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:



On Feb 26, 2019, at 8:12 AM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

In article <CAD6AjGTBNZ8wTv6Y1KgTvNaW6Zi87RLprQK2Lg=d0evK8ot7=g () mail gmail com> you write:
Swapping the DNS cabal for the CA cabal is not an improvement. Right?  They
are really the same arbitraging rent-seekers, just different layers.

The models are different.  If I want to compromise your DNS I need to
attack your specific registrar.  If I want a bogus cert, any of the
thousand CAs in my browser will do.

Exactly.  And if you’re an organization that has money and pays attention to DNS and security, you can get yourself a 
TLD, and be your own registry, at which point you only need to worry about the security of the root zone.

Interesting. 
Never thought of new TLD from this angle :)

-- 
Nico  

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