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Re: MD5?
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:32:42 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote:
lots of folks still use it yes. is it helpful? maybe? maybe not? is this peering over a shared media (like a 10base-T hub). You might point out that you'll be enabling this, then promptly writing the 'secret' on a large whiteboard in your noc... because chances are the config won't include it in rancid and ... you don't have a place to store these securely that's not prone also to outages :( also, customers wander through your NOC, so...
All that may be true, but still, the random hacker in Romania who wants in on their BGP session won't know the secret...probably.
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