Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits

Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits(mattb.nz)

2 points by dantiberian 2 years ago | 1 comment

teddyh 2 years ago |

> Some see the current DNSSEC costs simply as teething problems that will reduce as the software and tooling matures to provide more automation of the risky processes and operational teams learn from their mistakes or opt to simply transfer the risk by outsourcing the management and complexity to larger providers to take care of.

> I don’t find these arguments compelling. We’ve already had 15+ years to develop improved software for DNSSEC without success. What’s changed that we should expect a better outcome this year or next? Nothing.

We’ve had the X.509 certificate infrastructure for 30+ years, and it’s only recently become mostly safe and automated enough for people to deploy without risk. (This includes new risks, like accidentally sending HSTS headers with too large timeouts to the world.) DNSSEC will get there, too.