Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-12 Thread Paul F Fraser
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Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread timow+cryptography
On 2014-01-09, Paul F Fraser wrote: > Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central > to security of a large set of issued certificates. > Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into > account the need to not have the control in the hands of one person

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Thierry Moreau < thierry.mor...@connotech.com> wrote: > I guess a multisignature trust system requires some algorithm support > beyond RSA and ECC signature schemes pushed by NIST, and thus would have > been rejected on the (questionable) basis of lack of support i

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread Thierry Moreau
Tony Arcieri wrote: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Thierry Moreau mailto:thierry.mor...@connotech.com>> wrote: I would suggest that the DNSSEC deployment at the root would be a good case study for IT security management, from an historic perspective. The primary source documents, a

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread staticsafe
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:36:23AM -0800, Tony Arcieri wrote: > I'd actually look at DNSSEC as something of an antipattern. They ostensibly > seem to be using One Key To Rule Them all and a Shamir-like secret sharing > scheme. > > This makes less sense to me than a multisignature trust system / th

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Thierry Moreau wrote: > I would suggest that the DNSSEC deployment at the root would be a good > case study for IT security management, from an historic perspective. The > primary source documents, and the conclusion of such case study, could be > helpful to you bu

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread Thierry Moreau
Peter Bowen wrote: On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, ianG wrote: On 9/01/14 02:49 AM, Paul F Fraser wrote: Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to security of a large set of issued certificates. Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread ianG
On 9/01/14 18:05 PM, Peter Bowen wrote: On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, ianG wrote: On 9/01/14 02:49 AM, Paul F Fraser wrote: Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to security of a large set of issued certificates. Are there any safe techniques for handling thi

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Bowen
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, ianG wrote: > On 9/01/14 02:49 AM, Paul F Fraser wrote: >> >> Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to >> security of a large set of issued certificates. >> Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into >> accoun

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-08 Thread ianG
On 9/01/14 02:49 AM, Paul F Fraser wrote: Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to security of a large set of issued certificates. Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into account the need to not have the control in the hands of one person

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-08 Thread Joe St Sauver
Paul Fraser asked: #Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to #security of a large set of issued certificates. # #Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into account the #need to not have the control in the hands of one person? # #Any links o

Re: [cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-08 Thread Natanael
Den 9 jan 2014 00:56 skrev "Paul F Fraser" : > > Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to security of a large set of issued certificates. > Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into account the need to not have the control in the hands of one

[cryptography] Techniques for protecting CA Root certificate Secret Key

2014-01-08 Thread Paul F Fraser
Software and physical safe keeping of Root CA secret key are central to security of a large set of issued certificates. Are there any safe techniques for handling this problem taking into account the need to not have the control in the hands of one person? Any links or suggestions of how to hand