DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II
Fault-Tolerant Mesh of Trust Applied to DNS Security
Washington, DC
April 22-April 24
ISBN: 0-7695-1897-4
The Domain Name System is critical for the proper operation of applications on the Internet. Unfortunately, the DNS has a number of significant security weaknesses that can result in the compromise of web sites, email messages login sessions. Additionally, these weaknesses have been used as the basis for man-in-the-middle attacks on what are considered secure network protocols. This paper provides a short description of the weaknesses of the current DNS and a description of DNS security extensions that will solve the existing insecurities.
Index Terms:
Domain Name System, DNS, infrastructure, security
Citation:
Wes Griffin, Russ Mundy, Sam Weiler, Dan Massey, Naheed Vora, "Fault-Tolerant Mesh of Trust Applied to DNS Security," discex, vol. 2, pp.84, DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II, 2003