[102760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [admin] [summary] RE: YouTube IP Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Tue Feb 26 07:33:31 2008
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
To: Arnd Vehling <av@nethead.de>, Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
CC: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:09:02 -0800
In-Reply-To: <47C3F2A2.1010201@nethead.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 26/02/2008 12:06, "Arnd Vehling" <av@nethead.de> wrote:
[...]
> With a decent LIR DB (like the RIPE DB) this is only possible if an
> hijacker breaks the authentication of the according database objects
> which is a pain in the a** _if_ the objects use a proper authentication
> scheme like PGP.
I wonder what percentage of maintainers in the RIPE database only have PGP
and/or X.509 auth schemes. I'd be surprised if it was as high as 5%.
Leo
