Will you be at the ICANN 43 meeting taking place in San José, Costa Rica, in March 2012? If so, on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, there will be a “DNSSEC Workshop” bringing together people to discuss current and future DNSSEC deployment. Information is not yet available on the ICANN 43 website, but the call for proposals Read more…
Feb 13
NLnet Labs Makes Their DNSSEC Training Materials Freely Available For All To Use
Want to offer your own DNSSEC training courses? Or want to run an internal DNSSEC training class? Or want to give a DNSSEC presentation to a local user group? Or are you simply looking for material to help you learn more about DNSSEC? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Olaf Kolkman and Read more…
Feb 12
Attending O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference (TOCCON) This Week in New York
This week I will be in New York City at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, a.k.a. "TOC" or "TOCCON". As I wrote about recently on the Deploy360 blog, TOC is really the premiere gathering of the people behind…
Feb 10
U.S. Curling Championships Start Rocking Philadelphia This Weekend!
For those folks lucky enough to live in the Philadelphia area, or who can travel there, this weekend begins eight days of the US national curling championships! The best men’s and women’s teams will be in Philly vying for their chance to qualify in a slot for the 2012 World Championships and the 2014 U.S. Olympic Trials. Expect to see some outstanding curling happening this week! More on the story: Philly.com: U.S. curling championships come to Philadelphia area 2012 USA Curling Nationals Website A local Philadelphia country music station also seems to have helped produce a video with interviews and…
Feb 10
ENISA: Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC
In March 2010, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued their “Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC” with the abstract: Deploying DNSSEC requires a number of security details and procedures to be defined and followed with specific requirements as to timing. This guide addresses these issues from the point of view of information Read more…
Feb 10
DNSSEC Training: Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), authors and maintains of the BIND DNS server, have been providing DNSSEC-related training for several years at both conferences and in training centers all over the world. Their latest schedule of courses can be found at: http://www.isc.org/support/training ISC offers focused classes on DNSSEC and also includes DNSSEC as a component Read more…
Feb 10
DNSSEC Training: NLnet Labs Course Materials (Slides)
In February 2012, Olaf Kolkman from NLnet Labs taught a 2-day DNSSEC “Train-The-Trainer” workshop and nicely made all his course materials available online at: http://www.dns-school.org/Slides/index.html Olaf made all his courseware available as PDF, PowerPoint and Keynote files under a Creative Commons license that allows the course materials to be copied, modified and even used for commercial Read more…
Feb 10
Friday Comic: XKCD on IPv6 and Nanobot Swarms…
Yes, this XKCD comic came out in February of last year, but I still find it amusing (click on the image to see a larger version): For those not following IPv6, the joke here is that the nanobot swarm (ex. grey goo) wound up having to stop their proliferation – and destruction of earth – because Read more…
Feb 10
DNSSEC And The Challenge Of Modern Websites
Given that modern websites often pull content from a variety of different sites to build a single page, what impact does that have on DNSSEC and providing the security that it does? That was one of the questions raised in a recent post by the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative titled “Are You Secure?” This key point Read more…
