The claims that verifying DNSSEC caches can't be poisoned isn't true
after all.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> A property of Kaminsky's attack that it is effective against a single
> target is useful, here.

I don't know if anyone noticed, but in fact, according to RFC4035 the
delegation records and the glue records are not signed.  A verifying
DNSSEC cache can be poised with bad glue records using the poisoning
attack, with only a slight change to the Kaminsky software.

                --Dean



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