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Re: Using/validating DANE certs?

From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:56:07 -0400

On 9/11/25 04:47, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2025, Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote:
>
>> Implementing DNSSEC validation in an application is discouraged in 3655.
>>
>> It's analogous to implementing TCP over UDP in the application because you
>> don't trust the kernel's TCP stack...
>
> I beg to differ. That's a completely different matter.
>
> If curl doesn't verify the responses itself, how can a user be *sure* the DANE
> cert they are going to use is the right one?
systemd-resolved provides a D-Bus API that validates DNSSEC
and explicitly states if the data was authenticated or not.
Windows and macOS might have similar APIs, though I am not
familiar enough with either platform to say.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)




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