Alice Wonder wrote: > On 04/27/2016 01:21 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: >>> Sounds good, but how many domain MX servers have set up these >>> fingerprint keys - 1%, maybe 2%, so how do you code for that? I guess I'm thinking >>> it uses it if available. So even if you do post it on your DNS, how many clients out there are using DANE on their set up? By the time it becomes more than a tiny % and generally useful, it will be in CentOS 8. It >>> also requires certificates to be implemented more ubiquitously than at present - although we do now have affordable solutions, so this one may resolve >>> more quickly. >> > Security and Privacy on the Internet are both severely broken. > > If you read the white papers from when the Internet was first being designed, security was rarely even mentioned. <snip> Just as a point of information, when those RFCs were written, the Internet was *only* for US gov't, and selected research and educational organizations, and NO ONE else. The open 'Net only came in in the nineties - so security wasn't broken and insecure, back then there was physical security and careful selection as to who was allowed on, at all. mark