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Re: soBGP deployment


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:55:22 -0400


the certificates are carried ... in soBGP in a new BGP message.
btw, am i supposed to be cheered by yet another overloading of bgp?
Since S-BGP overloads signatures into the current packet formats, destroys 
packing, and destroys peer groups, I'm not certain that you can make the 
claim that S-BGP has a "lower impact" on BGP than soBGP does.

then i guess i am very lucky not to have made such a claim.

the point is that sbgp's changes, while more than one might prefer,
are made so that congruent data, path attestation, can be carried
in-band.  i consider the trade-off worthwhile for the seriously
improved security, which is the point of the exercise.

randy


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