Re: That pesky AS path corruption bug...

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000, Michael Shields wrote:
> In article <20000524163200.D367 () ewok creative net au>,
> Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au> wrote:
> > Cryptographically signing here ensures someone isn't going to tamper
> > with your route announcements in transit. When script kiddies have the
> > technology to splice fibre cabes in their backyard and sniff/replace
> > data at line speed, I'm sure they will have more fun things to do than
> > mess with your BGP session.
>
> Are you as confident about the security of exchange point fabrics?

No, but I can think of better things to be doing than fucking with
route announcements. ;-)

Although I do concede here, signing can also provide a level
of route filtering as was mentioned in the last email back at me.
Has anyone got any working code for that?


Adrian


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