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Re: HSM outage causes root CA key loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Kelm)
Tue Jul 14 16:04:04 2009
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:10:20 +0200
From: Stefan Kelm <skelm@bfk.de>
Reply-To: skelm@bfk.de
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <E1MQEYX-0002cn-Ei@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
> http://www.heise.de/security/E-Gesundheitskarte-Datenverlust-mit-Folgen--/news/meldung/141864
>
> reports that the PKI for their electronic health card has just run into
> trouble: they were storing the root CA key in an HSM, which failed. They now
> have a PKI with no CA key for signing new certs or revoking existing ones.
Actually, for a couple of days now they didn't stop pointing out that
they were still running the PKI in a test environment and that only
'a few hundred test cards' are affected... Just stupid nonetheless...
:-\
Cheers,
Stefan.
--
Stefan Kelm <skelm@bfk.de>
BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/
Kriegsstrasse 100 Tel: +49-721-96201-1
D-76133 Karlsruhe Fax: +49-721-96201-99
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