How secure is rndc?
Len Conrad
LConrad at Go2France.com
Thu Dec 21 19:42:32 UTC 2006
>I suppose the question to be answered is why RNDC does not encipher
>the payload.
RNDC is used primarily to secure control signals to named.
What's to encrypt when the packet content is a generic signal?
When TSIG is used to secure dynamic updates (payload is DNS record),
the DNS records themselves are most often public, so why encrypt them
in the update query?
Len
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