It is nonsense.

Let us consider a Tier 6 security regime applied to management of a CA:

Separation of duties - increases the number of trusted parties
No sequential access - increases the number of trusted parties
No lone zone - increases the number of trusted parties.

Those are all NSA/GCHQ doctrines. I am pretty sure that they
understand security engineering at some level.


People need to stop talking about links in chains. If you have a
serious security architecture it does not look like a chain, it does
not have a single point failure mode.



On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Richard L. Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> As security engineers, our role is to (a) reduce the number of
>>>> entities we trust; (b) reduce the extent to which we trust the
>>>> remaining trusted entities; and (c) determine the trustworthiness of
>>>> trusted entities.
>>>
>>> Really?
>>
>> Yep.
>
> +1
>
> One of the better definitions I've heard.  I would question whether (c) is 
> even in scope; seems like a relying party function.



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