Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread todd glassey
On 7/28/2010 1:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: >>> Also, these famous guys selected as part of the TCR group where the >>> number is not actually seven, don't even have enough material to sign >>> anything by themselves. >> Of course not. The only real requirement is that the TCR group hold enough >>

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Jorge Amodio
>> Also, these famous guys selected as part of the TCR group where the >> number is not actually seven, don't even have enough material to sign >> anything by themselves. > > Of course not.  The only real requirement is that the TCR group hold enough > shares so ICANN can't sign anything without th

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:20:51 CDT, Jorge Amodio said: > Also, these famous guys selected as part of the TCR group where the > number is not actually seven, don't even have enough material to sign > anything by themselves. Of course not. The only real requirement is that the TCR group hold enough

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Obviously you have approximately zero understanding of the crypto community. > They tend to be the most paranoid people out there - and the *only* way to get > acceptance of a signed root was to make sure that ICANN is *not* in posession > of enough keying material to sign a key by itself.  In ad

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:24:57 PDT, "andrew.wallace" said: > What I think is, this is leaving them wide open to attack. If an attack was > state-sponsored, its likely they would be able to stop those selected people > reaching the location in the United States by way of operational officers > inte

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Of course this is just my opinion. Which is totally unfounded and equivalent to a ton of dung. Please stop with the non-operational content conspiracy theories, tnx.

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joel M Snyder wrote: But... you can take this sort of 'single point of failure' argument almost as far as you want. In the security business (where I spend most of my time), I see people do this a lot--they get deep into the ultra-ultra-ultra marginal risk, which takes th

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread andrew.wallace
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com (andrew.wallace) wrote: > >> A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to >>help >> restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe. >> >> >> Paul Kane talked to Eddie M

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Jack Bates
Joe Greco wrote: From my point of view, my ideal alerting system is probably something like a smartphone running an app that's connected to the network monitoring system, and can tell me: 1) when it has lost that connection, and 2) whatever problems the network monitoring system chooses to let

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Greco
> I guess my point is: yeah, Brandon, Joe, you're right. But, I've built > the alerting solution that minimizes the risk I will miss an alert I > care about while also minimizing my overall cost and minimizing the > complexity of the alerting system. I'm happy to make it better, > cheaper, mo

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joel M Snyder said: > Obviously, using SMTP-to-SMS-over-the-Internet to tell yourself that > your SMTP infrastructure is hosed is the wrong answer. We even ran into this with paging and direct submission via TAP. We had a POTS line not provisioned over fiber (so not the same p

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Martin Hepworth
On 28 July 2010 15:42, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:38:25PM +0200, Joel M > Snyder wrote: > > But... you can take this sort of 'single point of failure' argument > > almost as far as you want. In the security business (where I spend most > > of my time),

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:38:25PM +0200, Joel M Snyder wrote: > But... you can take this sort of 'single point of failure' argument > almost as far as you want. In the security business (where I spend most > of my time), I see people do this a lot--they get deep into the

Re: Out-of-band paging

2010-07-28 Thread Joel M Snyder
On 7/28/10 3:40 PM, Joe Greco wrote: I would definitely consider the direction that cell and SMS is moving to be at-risk and probably effectively in-band during a communications crisis. As I pointed out to someone else last night in private e-mail: > [summary: TDM will run over same infrastruc

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Leen Besselink wrote: > > If you think that is misleading, you would want to see this article: > > http://www.metro.co.uk/news/836210-brit-given-a-key-to-unlock-the-internet See also the press releases from Bath University: http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2010/07/26/internet-secur

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Joe Greco wrote: > > Weren't the FCC and at&t recently suggesting that VoIP was the future of > telephony? BT are currently upgrading the UK's phone system to VOIP. But it's running on a private network. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ SOUTH FITZROY: NORTHEAST

Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...)

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Greco
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joel M Snyder wrote: > > It's completely out-of-band, even more so than our old > > touch-tone-phone-paging system was, so I'm actually happier with the total > > performance. Given that GSM coverage is increasing while pager coverage > > seems static or decreasing, SMS v

Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...)

2010-07-28 Thread Brandon Ross
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joel M Snyder wrote: It's completely out-of-band, even more so than our old touch-tone-phone-paging system was, so I'm actually happier with the total performance. Given that GSM coverage is increasing while pager coverage seems static or decreasing, SMS via out-of-band G

Re: Out-of-band paging (was: Web expert ...)

2010-07-28 Thread Joel M Snyder
From: Jim Richardson Subject: Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet > > As wonderful as the new communications paradigms are, do we also > > have a situation now developing where it might eventually become > > very difficult or even impossible to ensure out-of-band lines of >

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread gordon b slater
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:33 +0200, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > One, I do not see the operational relevance of this "news". The real problem is that articles like this DO get considerable attention in the UK - a place where "the internet" has yet to gain true understanding and recognition as a national

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Elmar K. Bins
andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com (andrew.wallace) wrote: > A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to > help > restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe. > >   > Paul Kane talked to Eddie Mair on Radio 4's PM programme about what he might > be > c

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Paul Thornton
Leen Besselink wrote: > On 07/28/2010 02:21 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> >> That plus the phrase "restarting the Internet" is more than a little bit >> misleading. >> >> > > If you think that is misleading, you would want to see this article: > > http://www.metro.co.uk/news/836210-br

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Leen Besselink
On 07/28/2010 02:21 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: That plus the phrase "restarting the Internet" is more than a little bit misleading. If you think that is misleading, you would want to see this article: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/836210-brit-given-a-key-to-unlock-the-internet By

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Matthew Walster
On 28 July 2010 04:52, Joe Greco wrote: > Right, I think I pointed out it was basically SMS, despite being billed > as "enterprise paging," which brings us back to the previous question > > Or are you saying that there are SMS networks out there that aren't part > of the cellular network?  :-)