[AfrICANN-discuss] A blog on the Key Signing Key Rollover (KSK)

Thu Nov 10 10:28:08 UTC 2016

Hi all !

Great news !
It's very good that Alain Aïna has witnessed this famous ceremony.
The MS model is really at work.
Kudos to AfrICANN !
Warm regards,
-Olévié-


2016-11-10 8:21 GMT+00:00 Baudouin SCHOMBE <b.schombe at gmail.com>:

> Although not understanding very well yet, I venture to say that there is some
> improvement in the root server management with this new formula KSK.
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> Thank you for sharing this important information.
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> 2016-11-09 7:15 GMT+01:00 Dandjinou Pierre <pdandjinou at gmail.com>:
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>> Fyi, a blog by Edward Lewis on the KSK
>>
>> Pierre
>> Step 2 - Done
>> Blog Post created by Edward Lewis
>> <https://wecann.icann.org/people/edward.lewis%40icann.org> on Oct 28,
>> 2016
>>
>> October 27, 2016, around 2:50pm local time in Culpeper, Virginia, Alain
>> Aina pressed two keyboard keys on a laptop and the new root zone DNSSEC Key
>> Signing Key (aka "root KSK") was created.  The first noticeable event of
>> the KSK rollover has happened.
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>> Step 2 is done.
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>> Alain Aina is a Trusted Community Representative, one of the non-ICANN
>> staff members who are called in to witness operations involving the root
>> KSK.  He was invited, as one of the TCRs in attendance, by the Ceremony
>> Administrator, Kim Davies, to press the keys.
>>
>>
>>
>> So. the new KSK exists. Although the public KSK is no secret, we are not
>> publicizing it yet.  That will wait until the new KSK makes its way into
>> the appropriate devices in El Segundo.  Today, October 28th, the new KSK
>> will arrive but remain bagged in a safe until the next gathering of TCR in
>> a few months.  Until that gathering, because something might go wrong still
>> (operators are very paranoid folks), we aren't publicizing the new KSK just
>> yet.
>>
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>>
>> Oh, what was step 1?
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>> Step 1 was the behind-the-scenes, non-glitzy upgrade of the software
>> needed to create the new KSK.  In recent months, without fanfare, code was
>> updated, checked, tested, audited by Punky Duero, Andres Pavez, Rick Lamb
>> and maybe others I'm leaving out from ICANN staff.  Within the project,
>> this is a very essential step but draws little attention because there's no
>> immediate result.  No one tweets "the code passed QA!"
>>
>>
>>
>> With step 2, we walked away with a shiny new KSK.
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