If you are looking to get started with the DANE protocol to provide higher security for SSL/TLS certificates, a basic question can be – how do you generate a TLSA record to put in your DNS zone file? As we outlined before, there are a number of different tools you can use.  One that is Read more…

Hash-slinger is a package of tools created by Paul Wouters of RedHat to make it easy to create records for  the DANE protocol that will allow you to secure your SSL/TLS certificates using DNSSEC. The package is available for Linux at: http://people.redhat.com/pwouters/hash-slinger/ One of the tools provided in the package is a command “tlsa” that Read more…

Want to know how well a website you visit works with IPv6? Whether the site uses components that are only available over IPv4? Or even whether you are connecting to a site using IPv6 or IPv4? If so, there are two outstanding extensions/add-ons that you can use: IPvFoofor Google Chrome IPvFox for Mozilla Firefox In Read more…

The big news this week out of The Nmap Project was the release of Nmap 6, “the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009.” The big addition of interest to us, of course, was the deep Read more…

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…

The goal of the DNSSEC-Tools Project is “to create a set of software tools, patches, applications, wrappers, extensions, and plugins that will help ease the deployment of DNSSEC related technologies.” The project website is at: http://www.dnssec-tools.org/ There you will find information about the available tools, tutorials, installation information and of course the actual DNSSEC tools available Read more…

The DNSSEC-Tools Project today announced the release of DNSSEC-Tools version 1.12.1 with a range of new DNSSEC applications, updates to a number of tools and porting of the DNSSEC validator library to the Android platform. The new release can be downloaded in various forms from: https://www.dnssec-tools.org/download/ The release announcement mentions these new features and capabilities: Read more…