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Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-trust-history - discussion

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 14 September 2010 17:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-trust-history - discussion
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> Doesn't trust-history impose a requirement high standards of operational
> security for key materials which have long since fallen out of
> production, and hence extend the possible window for a key compromise
> long after the key has stopped being used? From an operational
> perspective this worries me.

I haven't checked the draft, but it should be possible to throw away a
private key after it has signed its successor and been decommissioned.

Tony.
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