Those are all (b).

On Jan 26, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> 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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