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Safer Net Surfing is Goal of NIST Domain Name Security Experts

Submitted on March 10, 2009 - 1:00pm
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When you type www.irs.gov [7]—or the Web address of your bank or an e-commerce site—into your web browser, you want to be sure that no one is hijacking your request and sending you to a bogus look-alike page. You’re relying on the integrity of the Internet’s “phone book,” the Domain Name System (DNS). Computer scientists at Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are playing a major role in making sure that what you type is what you get by providing standards, guidance and testing necessary to bolster the trustworthiness of the global DNS. A draft update of NIST’s guidelines for DNS security [8] is now available for public comment. (More [9])

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