[dns-operations] Destroying HSMs

Daniel Kalchev daniel at digsys.bg
Thu Feb 1 14:52:18 UTC 2018


It is important that heavy smoke comes out of the unit when destroyed — otherwise nobody will believe it was the real one.

Daniel

> On 1 Feb 2018, at 16:37, Joao Damas <joao at bondis.org> wrote:
> 
> Actually it isn’t such a bad idea.
> We could verify, for everyone to see, that the types of manipulation that are supposed to trigger the anti-tampering on the HSMs work as expected. For instance, open the device and verify it self erases. Same for strong vibration (and here is where the hammer comes in handy).
> 
> Joao
> 
>> On 1 Feb 2018, at 15:32, Nicolas Antoniello <nantoniello at gmail.com <mailto:nantoniello at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> May we hammer it while connected (just to see what happens) ?
>> ... ok, I´m a kid... my fault !
>> :P
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Vladimír Čunát <vladimir.cunat+ietf at nic.cz <mailto:vladimir.cunat+ietf at nic.cz>> wrote:
>> On 02/01/2018 03:19 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> >> Favourite line:
>> >>
>> >> "9. CA and Contractor performs the destruction of each HSM part repeatedly."
>> > Huh.  I would have expected at least the HSMs get to have a last meal.
>> 
>> What's "meal"?  Do you suggest an electric chair?
>> 
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