July 30, 2010

Bullshit or not? Trying to find out more about those ‘keys’ (and their holders)

Q: What do these 7 people (Source):

Bevil Wooding, TT
Dan Kaminsky, US
Jiankang Yao, CN
Moussa Guebre, BF
Norm Ritchie, CA
Ondřej Surý, CZ
Paul Kane, UK

… have in common (beside the fact that they are all men and brilliant IT experts)?

A: They are the Recovery Key Share Holders — they hold smartcards that would in the event of a major disaster regenerate the root keys (…to connect everything once again).

Q: Bullshit or not?

A: Quite likely, not. Watch this video that explains how the system is supposed to operate and read what the Canadian Recovery Key Share Holder Norm Ritchie says…

… and for more information, here’s a roundup of recent coverage focusing on these 7 people above-mentioned:

DNSSEC Deployment Initiative: Trusted key representatives capture media imaginations (July 28)

Q: Are we smarter now? — A: More probably, yes.

By Eric at 12:13 pm CET | Category: Linktips
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