Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

[Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>]

On 07/29/10 20:09, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:19:45 CDT, Jorge Amodio said:
>
> > I suggest that it should be seriously considered to revoke the role of
> > RKSH from the person that used that role to obtain publicity and self
> > promotion, and request the immediate return of all cryptographic
> > material. This is not something to get the guy on a limo an parade him
> > on the streets of his local town or have now every one included on the
> > public list interviewed by news outfits.
>
> Well, there's a bit of a problem - you have to make the list of key holders
> known, so that all and sundry can verify for themselves that ICANN (or any
> other single organization, for that matter) doesn't have all the marbles.
>
> A second point is that if you have 7 keyholders who are not well known, they're
> actually *easier* targets than if they're well known public figures.  Think
> about that for a bit - who's easier to coerce without being detected, the guy
> who lives in the apartment downstairs from me, or somebody who's out in the
> open and identified as important?
>
> A pretty good article that puts a lot of the rest of it back into perspective:
>
> http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/07/fantasy-role-playing-has-no-place-in-dnssec

That article has numerous errors in it as well, and in some ways is even
worse because the guy is claiming to be a security expert who actually
understands how it all works.


Doug

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