Hope you are all doing well. Just to share that I am hosting a one-on-one session with Dr Di Ma (ZDNS) tomorrow 7th May and will be discussing some interesting points around RPKI - Relying Party Software aka Validator.
If you are interested in the topic then you are most welcome to join the session. Here are the details.
Topic Pointers: Understanding Relying Party Software - RPKI Validator
- What actually is Relying Party Software? What are the building blocks in the RP?
- How does it actually work? fetch data from TALs and give to router via RTR?
- We create ROA but what is the purpose of all other files "CER", "CRL" and "MFT"?
- What is RPKIVIZ? How does it help understand RPKI and its underlinestructure?
Guest Introduction:
Dr.
Di Ma is now the Principal Research Fellow of ZDNS. At ZDNS, he has
been leading research activities regarding
web PKI, DNSSEC and the RPKI. Before joining in ZDNS, he served CNNIC,
as a network scientist. Dr. Ma has been active in the RPKI and routing
security for years. He is one of the co-authors of RFC 8211 (Adverse
Actions by a CA or Repository Manager in the
RPKI) and RFC 8416 (Simplified Local Internet Number Resource
Management with the RPKI). He is also the administrator of the open
source project RPSTIR the RPKI relying party software. And he is the
co-founder of RPKI/routing security SIG of APNIC and now
acting co-chair of this SIG.