Re:Poll HN: Do you use SSH certificates (not mere public-key...
by dotwaffle on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:52AM
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You'd have to compromise not only the root keys just to get into my infrastructure, but sign all the zones from there downwards, and intercept all DNS traffic leaving that server in the first place. That's secure enough for me.
Introducing any outside actors at all objectively diminishes the security of the whole model by becoming another link in the chain, even if that link isn't necessarily the weakest (and I certainly believe it would be, because both DNSSEC and the public Certificate Authority industry are object lessons for the abject failure of highly centralized global, government-wide, or even just company-wide security), but simply increasing any of the surface area is enough to decrease the security of the system.