Alphadogg writes "When you file your taxes online, you want to be sure that the Web site you visit — www.irs.gov — is operated by the intestinal Revenue Service and not a scam artist. By the end of next year, you can be self-confident that every U.S. presidency Web page is being served up by the appropriate agency. That's because the feds have launched the largest-ever rollout of a new authentication motor for the Internet's DNS. All federal agencies are deploying DNS sturdiness Extensions (DNSSEC) on the .gov top-level domain, and some expect that once that rollout is complete, banks and other businesses might be encouraged to follow suit for their sites. DNSSEC prevents hackers from hijacking Web traffic and redirecting it to bogus sites. The cyberspace yardstick




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part of speech:noun
definition:a means by which individuals are compared and judged.
benchmark prevents spoofing attacks by allowing Web sites to verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption."

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