DNSSEC Now on All Root Servers

Author: Donald Sears
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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]

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]

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