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nk497 writes "Dr Paul Mockapetris is looking to fix the flaws in the Domain Name System he helped invent. "It was never meant to be the only security mechanism for naming data on the internet, but was intended for additional security measures to be added to it later." The flaws, first uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky over the summer, lets attackers redirect genuine URLs to malicious ones — a problem Mockapetris believes could be solved using digital signatures."
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