alt Hacker NewsWas wondering how long it'd take you to come in and trash talk DNSSEC. And now with added FUD ("and once you press that button it's much less likely that you're going to leave your provider").
At least you're consistent.
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Its not like its just tptacek with this take, i would say its the majority view in the industry.
You're not providing any explanation for why I wouldn't trust OP on DNSSEC. And the FUD is pretty reasonable if you've had a lot of experience setting up certificate chains, because the chain of trust can fail for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with your certificate and are sometimes outside of your control. It would really suck to turn it on and have some 3rd-party provider not implement a feature you're relying on for your DNSSEC implementation and then suddenly it doesn't work and nobody can resolve your website anymore. I've had a lot of wonky experiences with different features in EG X.509 that I've come to really mistrust CA-based systems that I'm not in control of. When you get down to interoperability between different software implementations it gets even rougher.
This is a topic I obviously pay a lot of attention to. Wouldn't it be weirder if I came here with a different take? What do you expect?
I don't think I'm out on a limb suggesting that random small domains should not enable DNSSEC. There's basically zero upside to it for them. I think there's basically never a good argument to enable it, but at least large, heavily targeted sites have a colorable argument.