Rotating cryptographic keys is a security best practice, so it’s good news that ICANN has begun the process to change the root key pair underpinning the security of the DNS. While the chances of a misstep is small, the fact remains that changing the root key pair has never been done before. A mistake can potentially — temporarily — break the Internet. No pressure, ICANN.
As the phone book of the Internet, DNS translates easy-to-remember domain names into IP addresses so that users don’t have to remember strings of numbers in order to access web applications and services.
