Mark Andrews wrote:

>>Thus, we must, anyway, protect cache.
>>
>>Then, where is the point to introduce DNSSEC only to have another
>>possibility of security holes?

> We still lock doors and windows despite the possiblity of people
> breaking in by lifting tiles.

I'm afraid DNSSEC people have been arguing against SCTP saying
DNSSEC is good enough.

Worse, though I have been warning for these 15 years that cached
glue may be used only for glue with same refferal, a broken
concept of bailiwick was introduced only to enable so called
Kaminsky attack.

> Attacks at the registry level are the
> equivalient of lifting tiles.  It happens sometimes. 

Protection of DNSSEC at the registy level is equivalent
to protection against lifting tiles. Not practical at all.

> Locking the doors and windows stops most attacks however.

Then, let's lock the doors and windows first, before working on
DNSSEC.

                                                Masataka Ohta

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