Re: [vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-17 Thread Bill Broadley
I'm going try to keep the signal to noise high. So I'm going to avoid the point/counter point, especially since I agree with Rick. I'm quite fond of ssh key pairs. They offer numerous advantages: * very impractical to brute force * reduce the exposure of whatever passwords you do use * if a ser

Re: [vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org): What you said. > * Authoritative only servers don't cache Well, yeah, authoritative-ONLY servers would have no use for caching by definition, as they aren't accepting data from elsewhere. DNSSEC is definitely quite worthwhile. I just am mostly wary of

Re: [vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-17 Thread Bill Broadley
I've gave a talk a few DNSSEC and DKIM talks and run a few DNSSEC protected domains. I was involved in getting UCD to finally go DNSSEC which happened recently. I was (AFAIK) the first DNSSEC enabled domain on campus. Ah, rats, for years I was the top hit on google for DNSSEC and DKIM, but

Re: [vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-16 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com): > > This prevents hackers from injecting false information (aka DNS cache > > 'poisoning'), in an attempt to re-direct people trying to access a real > > website to a fake, phishing or criminal site. > > I will attempt to answer you question by givin

Re: [vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-16 Thread Tony Cratz
On 09/16/2013 04:08 PM, Tony Cratz wrote: > I will attempt to answer you question by giving a very high > level overview. I see I made a number of small mistakes which could have been corrected if I would have read over my message before I hit send. Th

Re: [vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-16 Thread Tony Cratz
On 09/16/2013 01:13 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > How is it that attackers inject false information into DNS? > > https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/DNSSEC > This prevents hackers from injecting false information (aka DNS cache > 'poisoning'), in an attempt to re-direct people trying to access a real > web

[vox-tech] inject false information into dns

2013-09-16 Thread Brian Lavender
How is it that attackers inject false information into DNS? https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/DNSSEC This prevents hackers from injecting false information (aka DNS cache 'poisoning'), in an attempt to re-direct people trying to access a real website to a fake, phishing or criminal site. brian -- Bria