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Re: soBGP deployment


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:44:58 +0200


* Steven M. Bellovin:

Fundamentally, the answer to this question is this: how accurate do you 
think the routing registries are?

I don't think it's important how accurate they are *now*, but how
accurate they will be when some "secure" BGP version makes them (or,
more precisely, the route registration process) the weakest link in
the chain.  The fact that careful checking on the ISP side protects
other ISPs only (and your own business interests just in a very
indirect fashion) makes me believe that securing BGP will be *very*
hard.


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