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

[Paul Wouters]

Sorry you are right.

Reread it as “minimize people with access to the most top level key as much as possible”.



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> On Sep 18, 2018, at 11:18, Dmitry Burkov <dvburk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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