Sure. Count me in.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ondrej Surý
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 1:10 PM
To: George Michaelson
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dns-operations] Summary: Anyone still using a Sun/Oracle SCA6000 
with OpenSSL?

Just a question - would anyone would be interested in joining a project to 
build an OpenHardware FPGA-based HSM with focus on DNSSEC?

O.

On 16. 8. 2012, at 2:24, George Michaelson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I got 8 replies. 2 ccTLD, 2 root Ops, almost everyone in s/w development or 
> operational related roles, and some independent consultants.
> 
> Only one happy user, and I'd qualify that: they'd want a longterm migration 
> plan off the device. This person is using Solaris.
> 
> Everyone said avoid more than 255 keys on the device. Several said use the 
> import/export mechanism.
> 
> Two people explicitly mentioned the bad Linux driver. 
> 
> The overall tone of the (small sample) responses is: "this is not a good 
> choice right now"
> 
> 
> My context is not DNSSEC, its RPKI, which has a far larger keypair 
> requirement. Noting a suggestion to re-use keypairs, I'd still have to 
> risk-manage future potential for multiple keys per hosted client, and exceed 
> the on-card keystore size, so the suggestion to use the import/export 
> features makes sense. Having said that, documentation on this is really 
> scant, and its hard to confirm how easily you can manage this given there is 
> no explicit OpenSSL PKCS11 support for managing PKCS12 wrapped objects, and 
> you are therefore using a java or shell command to do the key import, 
> followed by OpenSSL engine, followed by shell/java to remove the key. 
> 
> If you use a pure Java solution its probably more tenable.
> 
> Thank you to everyone for the response. I hope this summary meets a sense of 
> privacy, and OT posting.
> 
> -G
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