October 2011 Archives

Protecting Intellectual Property is Good; Mandatory DNS Filtering is Bad

12 Oct 2011
vixie

It has been about six months since I got together with four of my friends from the DNS world and we co-authored a white paper which explains the technical problems with mandated DNS filtering. The legislation we were responding to was S. 968, also called the PROTECT-IP act, which was introduced this year in the U. S. Senate. By all accounts we can expect a similar U. S. House of Representatives bill soon, so we've written a letter to both the House and Senate, renewing and updating our concerns.

Other Uses for Secure DNS

13 Oct 2011
vixie

In the October 2011 issue of the Usenix Associations ";login:" newsletter, I published an article entitled "Other Uses for Secure DNS", with special attention to the IETF DANE working group and the proposed protocol for replacing the X.509 certificate authority system with a secure and scalable system based on Secure DNS.

A reprint of article is attached below.

TechWoman in Marrakesh-an October '11 update

16 Oct 2011
Larissa Shapiro

As I wrote in June (link to my last techwomen blog), I've been deeply honored this year to participate in the inaugural round of the TechWomen initiative, a program of the US State Department, as a technical mentor.