[security] DNS-SEC the solution?

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Fri Aug 8 19:13:00 UTC 2008


On 8-Aug-08, at 11:13 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com> wrote:
>> What if OpenID required DNS-SEC critical parts of the protocol?
>>
>> The objective is to bind of the DNS identifiers to documents.
>>
>> This could be a driver for DNS-SEC. Thoughts on this Ben?
>
> DNSSEC certainly solves the underlying DNS problem, and definitely
> could be extended to solve all sorts of other problems.
>
> Whether problems in OpenID will be found signfiicantly more compelling
> than existing arguments is another question.

Would you elaborate or provide a pointer?  Your wisdom here would  be  
really  useful!

-- Dick



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