Article: Now, a low-cost system to thwart Internet eavesdropping

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Washington, Aug. 26 -- Carnegie Mellon University experts say that they have developed a low-cost system that can reduce the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications.

The researchers say that their system, called Perspectives, can also offer protection against attacks related to a recently disclosed software flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet phone book used to route messages between computers.

Assistant Professors David Andersen and Adrian Perrig, and Ph.D. student Dan Wendlandt at the university's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering have incorporated Perspectives into an ...

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