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Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...


From: Harsha Narayan <hnarayan () cs ucsd edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:04:16 -0800 (PST)


Hi,
  It would require a PKI and also require every router to support it.

Harsha.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Vadim Antonov wrote:


On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Harsha Narayan wrote:

Key databases:
Using cryptography to authenticate routing updates gets messy very soon.
Then, there will again be the same problem of the Public Key Infrastucture
not getting updated or something like that.

Hard to do it right, yes, but not impossible. (Actually I did strong
crypto for a living last few years, so I think I have somewhat informed
opinion on the subject :)

--vadim



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