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Re: TCP/BGP vulnerability - easier than you think


From: Paul Jakma <paul () clubi ie>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:17:09 +0100 (IST)


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

I'm not recommending this for "small" peers as the crypto DoS risk
is worse than what happens when the attack is executed
successfully.

Why would MD5 be more of a crypto DoS risk with IPSec AH headers than
with bgp tcp-md5?

regards,
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