According to a Networkworld article the US government has decided to deploy DNSSEC, a technology that replaces the old venerable DNS services that is used to look up Internet addresses of websites and email servers. The old system was the target of multiple attacks in recent years and was never designed for the Internet as it is used today.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/092208-government-web-security.html?fsrc=rss-security
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