[Cryptography] asymmetric attacks on crypto-protocols - the rough consensus attack

[Dan McDonald]

> The extra cost of the original approach was over $30 million as it would
> require the use of 64 bit machines rather than 32 bits. The choice was
> between modified DNSSEC and no DNSSEC at all. But the NSA BULLRUN folk were
> able to derail the discussion and block the change. They also made sure
> ICANN would not permit deployment of any DNSSEC scheme that was not IETF
> approved.

Whoa.  I've only seen the strong-NIH version -- you're saying the modified
DNSSEC was sabotaged by "NSA BULLRUN" folk?

Do you have mailing-list archive pointers for folks in the audience?  That
might be some fascinating reading.

Dan