Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases

[fredrik danerklint <fredan-nanog () fredan se>]

Tony,

Thanks for this explanation! 

I think this is what I've been looking for regarding securing DNSSEC.


> > and how about a end user, who doesn't understand a computer at all, to
> > be able verify the signatures, correctly?
>
> The current trust model for DNSSEC relies on the vendor of the validator
> to bootstrap trust in the root key. This is partly a matter of pragmatism
> since the validator is a black-box agent acting on the user's behalf, like
> any other software.
>
> It is also required by the root key management policies, since a root key
> rollover takes a small number of weeks, much shorter than the
> not-in-service shelf life of validating software and hardware. This means
> that a validator cannot simply use the root key as a trust anchor and
> expect to work: it needs some extra infrastructure supported by the vendor
> to authenticate the root key if there happens to have been a rollover
> between finalizing the software and deploying it.
>
> Tony.

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//fredan