A step-by-step procedural and technical manual for conducting an audited, air-gapped cryptographic key generation ceremony for sovereign root CAs.
Setting up a temporary Faraday-caged, electromagnetically shielded cleanroom. Protocols for continuous camera monitoring, witness verification, hardware tamper inspection, and zero radio emissions enforcement.
Detailed procedural script: assembling pristine hardware components from sealed tamper-evident bags, booting a verified live Linux operating system from write-blocked optical media, generating entropy from multiple quantum noise sources, and deriving the FIPS 205 root hypertree.
Splitting root secret keys across multi-custodian physical smart cards, writing cryptographically signed audit logs, and transporting physical key backups in military-grade fireproof safe deposit boxes across geographically isolated underground vaults.