May 6, 2010, 12:14PM

DNSSEC Now on All Root Servers

Yesterday (Wednesday) the last of the 13 authoritative root servers for the domain name system  switched over to the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) security protocol. DNSSEC is intended to prevent DNS exploits such as cache poisoning. All 13 root servers are now serving a signed version of the root zone. However, it is not possible to validate these signatures at present as the public key remains undisclosed. Read the full article. [The H Security]


Commenting on this Article is closed.

 

Copyright © 2012 threatpost.com | Terms of Service | Privacy