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Re: [md-distro] thoughts regarding an Ops work plan


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  • From: Tom Scavo <>
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  • Subject: Re: [md-distro] thoughts regarding an Ops work plan
  • Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:40:56 -0400

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Cantor, Scott
<>
wrote:
> On 10/3/13 1:53 PM, "Steve Thorpe"
> <>
> wrote:
>
>>Could you clarify for this uninitiated reader, what is "HSM"?
>
> Hardware Security Module. Semi-necessary to put a key online.

Yes, the idea is this: if we protect our metadata signing key in an
HSM, we might be able to automate our metadata signing process, which
has all sorts of advantages, both in terms of security and operations.

Tom



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