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by nly 3958 days ago
You're confusing vanilla DNSSEC with its proposed uses/abuses. DNSSEC just enforces the trust model that was already in place (the hierarchical nature of DNS) to ensure the authority and integrity of DNS responses. It doesn't provide confidentiality because that simply doesn't work in the shared DNS forwarder+cache model we all currently depend upon, much like HTTPS renders shared HTTP caches useless (which has implications for CDNs for example).

Proposals like DANE, using TLSA records, or deploying SSHFP records on DNSSEC enabled domains, are a different kettle of fish.

Whether or not you believe in DANE really depends on whether you're willing to accept that the DNS infrastructure is already security critical. Truth be told, if I can hijack your DNS, I can get a certificate for your domain using simple domain validation... but that's true of your web server as well. There's no easy answer here.