Or your device needs an RTC...

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Ted Lemon wrote:
>
>> Why would you put a device on the shelf for ten years?  Is this a real
>> scenario?  This is certainly a known issue that has been talked about at
>> length--the conclusion when it was discussed is that there is nothing we can
>> do about it, and it's relatively unlikely, and manually fixable.
>
>
> How is it manually fixable? By someone to ssh into the device and edit a
> file with new key material?
>
> My mom can't do this.
>
> I have personally picked a Cisco AGS out of a unopened box in 2010. By then
> it was probably 15-20 (?) years old?
>
> Anyhow, my takeaway from this message is that DNSSEC can't be used as a
> mechanism for device autoconfiguration. No device trying to autoconfigure
> itself can rely on DNSSEC, because there is a fairly short (few years)
> window for that device to get plugged in, because after that it can't
> autoconfigure itself.
>
> Correct?
>
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swm...@swm.pp.se

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