[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
DNSSEC Encryption for DNS registration and ITAR Nonsense
At 10:14 AM 2/12/97 -0500, "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <[email protected]> wrote:
>People may want to note that yesterday (Feb 11th) the IESG approved the DNS
>dynamic update and DNS secure dynamic update (draft-ietf-dnssec-update-04.txt
>and draft-ietf-dnsind-dynDNS-11.txt) as Proposed Standards. The base DNS
>security protocol was approved some time ago and is now out as RFC 2065.
Details are on http://www.tis.com/docs/research/network/dns.html
It's a very interesting page - pointers to the RFC
http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2065.txt ,
and downloadable beta code from TIS implementing it. Cool stuff.
But then there's the politial correctness part of the web page :-)
> Trusted Information Systems, Inc. has received approval from the
> United States Government for export and reexport of TIS/DNSSEC software
> from the United States of America under the provisions of the Export
> Administration Regulations (EAR) General Software Note (GSN) license
> exception for mass market software. Under the provisions of this license,
> this software may be exported or reexported to all destinations except
> for the embargoed countries of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea,
> Sudan and Syria. Any export or reexport of TIS/DNSSEC software to the
embargoed
> countries requires additional, specific licensing approval from the
> United States Government.
Yup. Can't let those Cubans secure their DNS..... At least the government
did decide to permit export.
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 [email protected]
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
# (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)