On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:23:50 +0200
polishcode <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please refer to the link I supplied above: 
> http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2011/08/30/when-certificate-authorities-are-hacked-2.
>  
> What else could it transmit? Everything or nothing.

False sense of security is worse than no security. Opera is arguably
better but still pointless without a secure connection. If the
connection is not secured by Opera then an attacker can just forge the
content, If it is secured then Opera can send back anything they like
such as your browser history or worse for all we know.

There is a proposal for DNSSEC to be used though the encryption for
DNSSEC was poorly chosen (RSA) and so key sizes limited in size by the
DNS record system.

With DNSSEC the problem of DOS would still be true too.

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