DNSSEC primer

Answers You Can Trust

Article from Issue 117/2010
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One of the largest holes in the Internet is finally plugged.

I hope by the time you are reading this article that the DNS root domain (.) will include signed data for all the top-level domains (.nl, .org, etc.). Why? Because once that is done, you will finally be able make DNS queries and actually validate that the answer you received is correct.

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