DNSSEC: A PROTOCOL TOWARD SECURING THE INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE.

This article describes Domain Name System Security Protocol (DNSSEC) and its role as an ecology of security protocols and measures. Most U.S. Internet users cite privacy and data confidentiality as their main security concerns. Experts, however, remain more uneasy about infrastructure, with many pre...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 44 - 51
Autores principales:	Friedlander, Amy, Mankin, Allison, Maughan, W. Douglas, Crocker, Stephen D.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jun2007
Materias:	Internet domain names Information superhighway Computer security Computer users Internet users Data protection Computer access control Computer network security Database security Access control Electronic information resources United States
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Sumario:	This article describes Domain Name System Security Protocol (DNSSEC) and its role as an ecology of security protocols and measures. Most U.S. Internet users cite privacy and data confidentiality as their main security concerns. Experts, however, remain more uneasy about infrastructure, with many predicting a catastrophic event being executed through the networked information infrastructure or the country's power grid. Infrastructure attacks occur outside their normal frame of reference and control.