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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:51:10 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: DNS vulnerability: other relevant software
* Bernhard R. Link:
> if there are many queries, I think attacking only gets harder, because
> guessing the order of requests gets harder to predict, adding more
> variables.
Right.
> I'm also looking forward to this. I was under the impression that is was
> common knowledg that dns is simply insecure, everyone trusting on it is
> insane, and security issues meaning it is easier to hijack than it
> should be (like dns servers accepting answers for things they never
> asked for and things like that).
Online banking security mainly relies on the integrity of DNS and
routing. (Bert's DNS forgery resilience draft actually covers this, and
I think he's right.)
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