Re: [homenet] Ted's security talk at IETF99: DNCP Security

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 31 July 2017 17:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Ted's security talk at IETF99: DNCP Security
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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
    mcr> Is there a document for this Ted? I will offer to help.

    > Your help would be much appreciated, but I don't know why there would
    > be an election, so there's at a minimum some thinking to do
    > there. There is no document yet.

I think that we need to have a Registrar that issues certificates.
ANIMA's BRSKI document automates much of this.

That partly gets rid of the security exception on each access to the
web interface: provided the web browser loads the new trust anchor.

    > Also, bear in mind that a vendor-centric approach to this probably isn't
    > going to work, because right now all the Homenet work I'm aware of is
    > happening on OpenWRT and LEDE. I'm sure that will change if we come up

This is where all the other pairing mechanisms come into play.
You mentioned having a laundry list of them.

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