Nice ! Congratulations to Alain for this greats moments on DNSSEC development.
Regards Franck DOSSOU 2016-11-09 7:15 GMT+01:00 Dandjinou Pierre <[email protected]>: > 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. > > > > Step 2 is done. > > > > 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. > > > > Oh, what was step 1? > > > > 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. > > -- > Pierre Dandjinou > Cotonou - 229 90 087784 / 66566610 > Dakar 221 77 639 30 41 > www.scg.bj > skype : sagbo1953 > > > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann > >
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