Re: Internet traffic keeps straying, and the chance of long-term fix is slim

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

BGP hasn't been fixed because we do not have the trust infrastructure to fix
it.  X.509 does not scale.

We'll see what happens when DNSSEC fully spins up.


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Juha-Matti Laurio <
juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:

> http://www.latimes.com/technology/sns-ap-us-tec-fragile-internet,0,126956.story
>
> "In 1998, a hacker told Congress that he could bring down the Internet in
> 30 minutes by exploiting a certain flaw
> that sometimes caused online outages by misdirecting data.
> In 2003, the Bush administration concluded that fixing this flaw was in the
> nation's "vital interest."
>
> Fast forward to 2010, and very little has happened to improve the
> situation. The flaw still causes outages every year."
>
> Related:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9878655-7.html
> (How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
>
> Juha-Matti
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