DNSSEC to be strangled at birth.

[Victor Duchovni]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:

> 
>      Afternoon all,
> 
>   This story is a couple of days old now but I haven't seen it mentioned
> on-list yet.
> 
>   The DHS has "requested the master key for the DNS root zone."
> 
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87655
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/dns_master_key_controversy/
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/1725221

The story makes no sense, so I am inclined to discount it. This is a
signing key, not an encryption key, there is no reason for the DHS to
have it, so I am assuming that they won't have it, and perhaps the story
is the result of confusion/incomptence somewhere.

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