Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications, Network World

IETF: Should We Ignore the Kaminsky Bug?

November 21, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered this summer, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous quotation from Voltaire: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

At issue is whether the group should use its resources to encourage DNS registries, ISPs and enterprises to upgrade to the ultimate DNS security solution known as DNSSEC, or whether it should tweak the DNS protocols to address the so-called Kaminsky bug as an interim step.

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