On 2010-10-03, at 07:59, Tony Finch wrote:

> On 3 Oct 2010, at 08:27, Jakob Schlyter <ja...@kirei.se> wrote:
>> On 1 okt 2010, at 20.59, Tony Finch wrote:
>>> 
>>> Right, so it's aimed at human consumption rather than automatic tools?
>> 
>> Given the historical information (together with old DNSKEY), you could build 
>> a trust anchor history zone.
> 
> Not really, since you need the private key of the old TA to sign the public 
> key of the new one to get a cryptographic proof of the history. Without that 
> it is just a third party attestation, which is rather weaker.

As has been expressed many times, old keys are not trustworthy and hence their 
signatures have no value.


Joe

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