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[Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF



On 12/1/2014 1:42 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I think it depends very much on your definition of "Secure".  You are
> correct that DNSsec does not provide any confidentiality services.
> However it does indeed protect the data integrity from interloping
> intermediaries and provide authenticated DNS Data.

No, it doesn't. It only prevents cache poisoning when DNSSEC is enforced 
on your resolvers. If you do not enforce DNSSEC on your resolvers then 
your resolvers will accept any unsigned RRs including those that have 
had the RRSIG records stripped by malicious intermediaries.

-- 
Rich P.



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