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Actually I keep providing specifics which you ignore, for example the blog post declares that DNSSEC is "unsafe" because it can cause hostnames to be revealed and you give the example of Bank of America, owners of the bankofamerica.com domain for which you say such a policy "does not work so well".

But today actually FQDNs like 14021-nonprod.bankofamerica.com or whkgm04ye.hktskcy.apac.bankofamerica.com are not just accessible if you brute force DNS, they're automatically published, because Bank of America heavily relies, in fact, on the Web PKI and its issuers log the certificates.

It seems very strange to focus on the security for .COM when my point is that that entire TLD is badly run, it's like you're focused on how good the lock is on the front door (somebody call Deviant Ollam) at Lehman Brothers when the actual problem was they've invested all this money in worthless mortgage securities.



That's simply false. Bank of America's public servers with TLS certificates are logged (which, by the way, is also an operational security problem for them), but their other services are not.

You've picked an odd point to quibble with, since there's not only NSEC and NSEC3 but now, after the last RWC, a proposed NSEC5 to address this supposed non-problem.




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