[ksk-rollover] ICANN board meeting result and the Current status of KSK-Rollover

Dmitry Burkov dvburk at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 15:18:33 UTC 2018


Paul,

not sure that I understood you.

I told about the case when we will have one key - but you again 
mentioned KSK and ZSK

Or - please - correct the terminology for this case

Dima


On 9/18/18 5:22 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Dmitry Burkov wrote:
>
>> Do we really still need spliting KSK/ZSK?
>
> Yes we do. The number of KSK private key access should be kept at a
> minimum and all of them audited. If you remove the split, any operations
> person can create secret ZSKs to be used in targeted attacks. It might
> be very unlikely but I think we need the insurance.
>
>> On 9/18/18 3:46 PM, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
>
>>>  I think we should set an "intense" schedule (twice per year? once per
>>>  year?) _beforehand_, to send the message that "there is no relief 
>>> after
>>>  this, there is only more pain ahead ... unless you automate!" to 
>>> the DNS
>>>  software community. There must be no way to hardcode the KSK in code.
>>>  This will continue to be this painful until that message is 
>>> received and
>>>  understood.
>
> I agree doing this annually would prevent hardcoding in software. I
> think that is a great discussion to start a week after this roll :)
>
> Paul



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