[ksk-rollover] Root Zone KSK Rollover and HSM Update

Michael StJohns msj at nthpermutation.com
Thu Aug 3 18:57:22 UTC 2023


Hi Tomofumi -

KMIP is probably not relevant to this problem.  The problem I think 
you're trying to solve here is not one of interface (how to talk to the 
keys), but of key protection.

Mike

On 8/2/2023 2:35 AM, Tomofumi Okubo via ksk-rollover wrote:
> There is not much you can do with the existing keys but still, KMIP is 
> something to consider going forward if one is concerned about vendor 
> lock-ins.
> Needless to say, like anything else, there is a tradeoff.
>
> Cheers!
> T.
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 11:23 PM Jakob Schlyter via ksk-rollover 
> <ksk-rollover at icann.org> wrote:
>
>     On 2023-07-31 at 14:53, Frederico A C Neves via ksk-rollover wrote:
>
>     > From our experience besides admin interfaces, standard APIs for
>     > regular operations, generating keys, sign, verify etc... are
>     available
>     > (PKCS#11/KMIP) from multiple vendors. But exporting/importing a key,
>     > specially with the no-export attribute set, among vendors is not
>     > available.
>
>     I concur; moving keys not marked as CKA_EXTRACTABLE (at time of
>     generation) is generally not supported (due to FIPS requirements).
>
>             jakob
>
>     -- 
>     Jakob Schlyter
>     Kirei AB - www.kirei.se <http://www.kirei.se>
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