Sorry to hear that. Best wishes. On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 10:07 AM Dave Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our friend and colleague Dan Kaminsky has passed away of complications > from diabetes. He was the discoverer/inventor of the DNS > vulnerability that came to bear his name, the ability to take over > whole swaths of domains much more easily than had previously been > thought possible. > > Announcement from his niece: > https://twitter.com/sarahbrie/status/1386384261133922310 > > There are many pages that describe the vulnerability to varying > degrees of depth. The key to it is first poisoning caches for the > authority records of a zone. This lets an attacker then redirect many > records within the zone at their leisure. Here's one write-up about it: > http://unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-vuln.html > > An entertaining, short video of the early stages of his experience > with the vulnerability: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-v_wJIJUI4 > > For those who had not met him, he had a generous heart and a quick > wit. I will miss him. > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations >
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