Cricket on DNS
The latest on DNS Security, DNSSEC, IP Address Management... and more
Back in October 2010, I posted Whither DNSSEC? which speculated on DNSSEC's second act. If the Internet had a fully DNSSEC-secured namespace, we could add email authorization data and SSH fingerprints to DNS. Two commenters, Chris Angelico and John Speno, suggested storing web site certificates and certs for signing applets in DNS, too.
A few weeks ago, the press announced a possible threat against the Internet's DNS infrastructure by the hacking group Anonymous. Anonymous allegedly planned to mount a DDoS attack against the root name servers to "shut the Internet down," in order "to protest SOPA, Wallstreet [sic], our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world."