[Cryptography] Against against DNS (Re: New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47) days by 2029

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Sat Apr 26 18:06:13 EDT 2025


On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 10:00:57AM -0700, Christian Huitema wrote:
>                             [...]. Also, there is a high correlation between
> the "authoritative DNS" for a domain and the "CDN server" for that domain.
> See for example https://ithi.research.icann.org/graph-m9.html, which shows
> that the most popular DNS servers for big domains are Cloudflare, AWS,
> Google and Akamai. If you are making a DoH connection to Cloudflare and the
> authoritative server for the domain is also Cloudflare, DNSSEC does not
> bring a lot of value...

Sure, but the whole world isn't hosted on CDNs.  I would have preferred
DJB's model for DNS security because it provided confidentiality, but I
do loke that one can sign RRSets.  Ideally we could have gotten both.


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