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How does DNSCurve protect against forgery in a man-in-the-middle attack scenario?

This Question is about DNSCurve. I thought of DNSCurve as "HTTPS for DNS" (like in this Answer) but had some resent thoughts about the trust-relationship between resolvers and nameservers serving the ...
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Opt into strict DNSSEC checking - does DNSSEC provide a way for a zone to request strict signature validation?

Is there a way for a domain good.com to promise that it will sign all of its DNS records, and that any unsigned records for any host *.good.com should be rejected? In other words, is there a way for ...
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Can you force your PC or device to use only DNSSec-verified lookup results?

Okay, I'll admit something first-off: I don't really understand some of the practical aspects of how DNSSec protections work very well.(Even after reading resources like this.) Well, I certainly ...
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Is DNSSEC immune to stripping signatures?

In my opinion, it should be possible to forge DNS reply so it doesn't include DS/RRSIG/... parts for any request, thus bypassing DNSSEC validation of resolved domain. Is DNSSEC system immune to this ...
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How does a client know that a DNS zone is DNSSEC protected?

Recently, I've been reading about DNSSEC and how it works. I found other questions and some very interesting answers on this and other websites related to this matter. However, I have a question to ...
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