On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org>
 wrote:
> Please: no. If I have local validation turned on for my own host, and there 
> is a site I need to get to but it has broken signatures, I would like a GUI 
> that says "this zone has broken signatures; ignore validation failures for 60 
> minutes?".

Training users to bypass security.   This is extremely bad security UI design.  
 MUST NOT level bad.   How does the user distinguish between "attack" and 
"mistake"?   I don't even know how I would do it, and I have at least some 
vague understanding of the security model of DNSSEC, which is a genuine rarity. 
  What's the point of having a validating resolver if validation can be skipped 
with a click?

Having a configurable negative trust anchor zone isn't as good as having DNSSEC 
that can be counted on to always be configured correctly, but it's a lot better 
than a UI like this.

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