Re: Using/validating DANE certs?

Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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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?

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