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Re:ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now by toast0 on Saturday April 20, 2019 @02:25PM (#19708060)
I can field this one. DNSSEC was conceived with support for a traditional zone transfer process. When you edit the zone, you sign it once (potentially offline) and send it via zone transfer to all your authoritative servers. In that context, the authoritative servers can't do things like serve the best A or whatever record given the recursive resolver contacting them and global state. Instead, you generally end up with your keys online on all the authoritative servers. Which means if your DNS account is hacked, chances are, the hackers are in a position to change your records. If your registrar account is hacked, the hackers are certainly able to remove or replace the DS records at the registry, so DNSSEC doesn't help there either (good auth at the registry and registrar and maybe registry lock help there).

DNSSEC might help with MITM, if you only communicate with recursive resolvers you trust to properly implement it and not sneak in any garbage, but it doesn't help against account compromise.

Re:ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now by marcosdumay on Saturday April 20, 2019 @05:07PM (#19708886)
> serve the best A

Well, you have to serve them all and let the client decide what to use, like with MX or SRV. Too bad HTTP is stuck in time and can't get any proper functionality.

And yes, I mean it is literally too bad. Why can HTTP hold 3 current standards at the same time, but still fail to work with basic internet infrastructure?

Re:ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now by tptacek on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:03AM (#19712361)
Are we at the point of desperation in the death gasps of DNSSEC where its advocates are now blaming other protocols for not rearchitecting the way they use the DNS to make it DNSSEC more viable? Because: nobody was ever going to do that.
Re:ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now by zzzcpan on Saturday April 20, 2019 @05:40PM (#19709028)
I sometimes wonder that too. There are tons of simple things HTTP and web browsers could implement to make everyone's life better and easier. Make redundancy built-in, for example, or a primitive peer-to-peer content delivery for stuff like videos. But then I remember that megacorps always want to keep competition out, make everyone invest a lot into crappy traditional infrastructure to compete. They can't allow a competing alternative to work on many orders of magnitude cheaper infrastructure, they are only interested in increasing that cost for everyone and at such pace that nobody can keep up.