[Cryptography] DNSSEC = completely unnecessary?

Paul Wouters paul at cypherpunks.ca
Wed Nov 6 17:02:10 EST 2013


On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Ben Laurie wrote:

>>> How did DNS get this magic un-MITM-able property?
>>>
>>> Surely if the GoC wants to cause nohats.ca to be modified, for some
>>> specific target(s), they can do that?
>>
>> He didn't say it isn't MITM-able. He said that it cannot do so
>> invisibly. In his model Eve would be able to perform a MITM attack, but
>> it would be immediately apparent to any party since the public
>> information would have to change.
>
> I got what he said. Its not true.

I could send my DNS queries over tor or over an IPsec VPN to some resolver.

You are asuming my DNS goes out my network port in a way you can read
it and with private key of the root or TLD sent me custom answers.

Paul


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