Security experts chart steps toward a tamper-proof Internet: Singapore event develops global system to protect e-mail and e-commerce

The Singapore event included an elaborate technical ceremony to create and then securely store numerical keys that will be kept in three hardened data centers there in Zurich and in San Jose California The keys and data centers are working parts of a technology known as Secure DNS or DNSSEC DNS refers to the Domain Name System which is a directory that connects names to numerical Internet addresses Preliminary work on the security system had been going on for more than a year but this was the first time the system had gone into operation even though it was not quite complete In the very long term it will be voice-over-I.P that will benefit the most said Bill Woodcock research director at the Packet Clearing House a group based in Berkeley California that is assisting Icann the Internet governance organization in deploying Secure DNS The first notable case of a compromise of the digital certificates -- electronic documents tha