http://gcn.com/articles/2009/04/06/nist-dnssec-in-play.aspx By William Jackson GCN.com April 03, 2009 The digital signing of the .gov top-level domain in February completed the first step of the implementation of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the government’s Internet space. The next step is for agencies to sign their second-level domains by the end of the year. It is not a simple process, which is one of the main reasons DNSSEC has not been widely deployed across the Internet’s Domain Name System despite its well-known vulnerabilities. “There is a steep learning curve in deploying DNSSEC,” said Scott Rose, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency that is writing the rules for deployment. DNS typically takes little management. However, once DNSSEC is deployed, there is the constant chore of generating and managing cryptographic keys and signing and re-signing data. But NIST is doing more than writing about it. The agency has had DNSSEC deployed in the NIST.gov domain for more than a year. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Sun Apr 05 2009 - 22:29:03 PDT
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