On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:27:00 EDT, Christopher Morrow said:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I would rather see DNSSEC and TLS/HTTPS get implemented end to end.
>
> how does tls/https help here? if you get sent to the 'wrong host'
> whether or not it does https/tls is irrelevant, no? (save the case of
> chrome and domain pinning)

Well, actually, Chrome-like domain pinning and/or using DNSSEC to verify the
provenance of an SSL cert is the whiole reason Jimmy probably wants DNSSEC and
TLS...Unless you do that sort of stuff, there's no way to *tell* if you ended
up at the wrong host...

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