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U.S. Government Mandates DNSSEC
In response to claims of “foot-dragging” with regards to DNS security, the United States government has ordered the administrators of all .gov domains to implement DNSSEC before January 2009.
DNSSEC is a somewhat controversial set of extensions to the DNS protocol designed to provide protection from forged data. Although it was first proposed in 1995, DNSSEC [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Root Servers, Security.
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