Deploy360 19 June 2014

Video: DANEs Don’t Lie – DANE/SMTP (RIPE 68)

Andrew Mcconachie
By Andrew McconachieFormer Intern

How can we secure communications between SMTP mail servers? Simply using TLS between servers will not prevent Man In The Middle(MITM) attacks. DNSSEC and DANE to the rescue! Using DANE, SMTP servers can validate X.509 certificates tied to TLS using DNSSEC lookups. In this lightning talk from Carsten Strotmann, learn how this all works and the current status of implementations. His talk, entitled “DANEs don’t lie – DANE/SMTP” is now available for viewing from the RIPE 68 site, and the slides are available for download.

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After watching, check out our resources on DNSSEC and DANE.

Disclaimer: Viewpoints expressed in this post are those of the author and may or may not reflect official Internet Society positions.

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