In order to mitigate the problems on DNS threats, hence DNSSEC is created. It is a set of extensions to DNS, which provide origin authentication of DNS data, data integrity, and authenticated denial of existence. Since DNSSEC involve public key cryptography, the zone administrator need extra effort to deploy it. OpenDNSSEC was created as an open-source turn-key solution for DNSSEC. It secures zone data just before it is published in an authoritative name server.

Domain Name System (DNS) is very important in the Internet Protocol (IP) network. One of the DNS features is to resolve domain name to IP address. Thus, the existence of DNS assists on the development of Internet capabilities. In early development of DNS, its design was not well secured, hence DNS is exposed to the DNS threats such as cache poisoning, man in the middle attack and fast flux.

By Amir Haris Ahmad

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Time : 9:15am till 10:00am (Developer track)

Date : 29 June 2010 (Day 1)

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