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  • An alternative DNS: Cool and sexy or wild and scary?

    2020-08-11 News

    By Monika Ermert, eLance Journalist - There have been calls for another DNS root or a DNS 2.0 in the past. During the SecDispatch WG meeting at IETF108 Martin Schanzenbach, speaking for a group of GNU developers, presented what they call a privacy enhancing and “fully decentralized and censorship-resistant name system”.

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  • Encrypting zone transfers closes one more leak left open by old DNS technology

    2020-08-07 Blog

    By Monika Ermert, eLance Journalist - Making the DNS more privacy friendly is the declared goal of the IETF DPRIVE Working Group (WG). As they gathered virtually for IETF108, the WG took a sharp look at the proposal to extend privacy to the technical operation of zone transfers.

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  • 2020 so far: a General Manager’s perspective

    2020-07-15 Blog

    Blogpost by Peter Van Roste, General Manager of CENTR - When we were drafting plans for 2020, nothing could have prepared us for the extraordinary times we have witnessed in the last six months.

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