Department of Homeland and Security wants master key for DNS

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Apr 2, 2007 2:12 PM EDT
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government. This ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet.

[Not Linux related, but definitely of interest to LXer audience — Sander]

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