Embedded systems of this sort need to have a management process so that
that can be updated. This is needed for more reasons than DNSSEC. Putting a
ten year old device on a network without upgrading the firmware is
irresponsible.

On Nov 17, 2016 06:57, "joel jaeggli" <joe...@bogus.com> wrote:

> On 11/16/16 10:44 PM, Wessels, Duane wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 16, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> As a whole, nobody seems to be interested in actually coming up with a
> viable solution that actually fixes peoples problems. Everybody's just
> punting the problem elsewhere or waving their hands and says "not our
> problem".
> >
> > I don't think its possible to have a solution that works for devices on
> the shelf for an arbitrarily long time.  You posed the problem as 10 years,
> which I think is an unrealistically long time.
>
> A decade is well within the service range of all sorts embedded systems.
>
> > You could probably have a useful discussion about what is an appropriate
> amount of time for something to be on the shelf and still expect it to
> work.  If there is some consensus on that then the operators of the key
> material can design around it.
> >
> > DW
> >
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