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Secure Distributed DNS
Florence, Italy June 28-July 01
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DSN.2004.13119122004 International Conference on Depe ...
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Christian Cachin, IBM Research, Switzerland
Asad Samar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
A correctly working Domain Name System (DNS) is essential for the Internet. Due to its significance and because of deficiencies in its current design, the DNS is vulnerable to a wide range of attacks. This paper presents the design and implementation of a secure distributed name service on the level of a DNS zone. Our service is able to provide fault tolerance and security even in the presence of a fraction of corrupted name servers, avoiding any single point of failure. It further solves the problem of storing zone secrets online without leaking them to a corrupted server, while still supporting secure dynamic updates. Our service uses state-machine replication and threshold cryptography. We present results from experiments performed using a prototype implementation on the Internet in realistic setups. The results show that our design achieves the required assurances while servicing the most frequent requests in reasonable time.
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Christian Cachin, Asad Samar, "Secure Distributed DNS," dsn, pp.423, 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'04), 2004
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