Re: DNSSEC indicator

Dick Hardt wrote:
 > fwiw I have always envisioned the significant impact
 > of DNSSEC was to provide a "trusted" method for tying
 > the public key used in TLS to the domain name
 > bypassing the "leaky" CA infrastructure.

CA architecture was designed to tie certificates to true
names - trouble is that the user is not necessarily
seeking to interact with a true name, but with a trusted
domain, or, more commonly, with a particular domain that
some trusted domain has linked to.

Received on Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:32:45 UTC