New Technologies System Virtualisation

Post edited 0:58 – 1 March 2009 by ElMehdi

DNSSEC (short for DNS Security Extensions) adds security to the Domain Name System (DNS). In fact, DNSSEC was designed to protect the Internet from certain attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning. DNSSEC is a specification of an extension to the DNS through the definition of additional DNS Resource Records that can be used by DNS clients to validate the authenticity of a DNS response, the data integrity of the DNS response, and where the response indicates no such domain or resource type exists, this negative information can also be authenticated.

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