On Aug 27, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with your summary of the NSEC/NSEC3 issues. I'll
> mostly ignore your summary for now and just note that there are a  
> number
> of other serious flaws.

It's hard to take a statement like this seriously when it's not backed  
up by some clarity as to what's being said.   If there are other  
serious flaws, let's hear about them.

> 3. Ordinary cache poisoning still possible in DNSSEC-aware non- 
> verifying
> caches, resulting in a DOS.

Right, we know about that, and what to do about it.

> 4. Crypto-overload DOS attack on verifying caches.

We know about this also, and know what to do about it.

> 5. New, hard to mitigate, DDOS attack using forged DNSSEC queries to
> roots, TLDs, large domains with an amplification factor near 100:1.

Details?   Are you referring to the fact that a DNSSEC lookup looks up  
more RRsets than a PODS lookup?   Is there a situation where all these  
lookups hit the same server?

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