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==Security and Technical Concerns==

==Security and Technical Concerns==

In May 2011, internet security experts namely [[Steve Crocker]], CEO of [[Shinkuro]] Inc., and vice-chairman of the [[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]]; [[David Dagon]], [[DNS]] post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology; [[Dan Kaminsky]], security researcher for Fortue 500 companies such as [[Cisco]] and [[MIcrosoft]]; [[Danny McPherson]], Chief Security Officer for [[Verisign]] and [[Paul Vixie]], founder of [[Internet Systems Consortium]] wrote a petition letter to the members of the Senate explaining that PIPA's DNS related provisions will cause harmful effects to the security and technical stability of the current internet architecture.

In May 2011, internet security experts namely [[Steve Crocker]], CEO of [[Shinkuro]] Inc., and vice-chairman of the [[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]]; [[David Dagon]], [[DNS]] post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology; [[Dan Kaminsky]], security researcher for Fortue 500 companies such as [[Cisco]] and [[Microsoft]]; [[Danny McPherson]], Chief Security Officer for [[Verisign]] and [[Paul Vixie]], founder of [[ISC|Internet Systems Consortium]] sent a White Paper to the members of the Senate explaining how PIPA's DNS related provisions will cause harmful effects to the security and technical stability of the current internet architecture. They encourage lawmakers to scrap the DNS filtering provisions---Section 3(d)(II)(A)(ii) as stipulated in the proposed bill because it is not compatible with the end-to-end implementations of DNS Security Extensions ([[DNSSEC]]), a DNS security extension which allows certain information to be signed cryptographically providing secure authentication of Internet assets.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/pdf/PROTECT-IP-Technical-Whitepaper-Final.pdf

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