Kaminsky DNS Flaw

August 12th, 2008

Much has been written about DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky. Probably one of my favorites is the least serious one: a poem by Christofer Hoff – The DNS Debacle In Poetic Review:

A few months ago
Kaminsky discovered a flaw.
It was with DNS,
It was nasty and raw

He decided than rather
to disclose all at once
he’d instead only tell people
who’d fix it in months

So some meetings were had
and work soon began
vendors wrote patches
coordinated by Dan

More on Hoff’s blog..

On a more serious note, here is a neat illustrated explanation of Kaminsky’s DNS Vulnerability.

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