OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Mon Mar 8 18:29:46 UTC 2010


> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:26 -0800
> From: Michael Sinatra <michael at rancid.berkeley.edu>
> Sender: bind-users-bounces+oberman=es.net at lists.isc.org
> 
> On 3/7/10 10:46 AM, Danny Mayer wrote:
> 
> > Autokey is not a cryptographic signature protocol. It *is* a
> > authentication protocol for the server only and there are a number of
> > exchanges that need to be done to complete the authentication of the
> > server. You cannot compare this with DNSSEC and nothing in NTP is encrypted.
> 
> Correct, the comparison was only to point out that Autokey, like DNSSEC, 
> doesn't encrypt payload because it doesn't need to.

More specifically, I don't WANT to encrypt the data for either DNS or
NTP. In both cases I want the data to always be signed clear-text and
that is what DNSSEC does.
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