RE: key change for TCP-MD5

["Bora Akyol" <bora () broadcom com>]

The draft allows you to have a set of keys in your keychain and 
the implementation tries all of them before declaring the segment
as invalid.

No time synchronization required. No BGP message required.

The added cost for CPU-bound systems is that they have to try 
(potentially) multiple keys before getting the **right** key
but in real life this can be easily mitigated by having a rating
system on the key based on the frequency of success.


Regards

Bora

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:22 AM
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: key change for TCP-MD5
>
>
> On 19-jun-2006, at 19:10, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > > > try reading more carefully
>
> > > Didn't help...
>
> > how sad, as the whole document is about how to usefully be able to 
> > introduce and roll to new keys without agreeing on a narrow time.
>
> Well, as you can tell from my message just now, I don't think 
> going from agreeing on a narrow time to agreeing on a wider 
> time is worth the trouble, especially since by adding a BGP 
> message it would be possible to roll over if and as soon as 
> both sides are ready, removing the "wait for some time and 
> then see whether the other end really installed the new key" 
> part from the proceedings.