[113365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: attacks on MPLS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Apr 10 07:07:08 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:04:52 +0200
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520904091011v155d37eet9b88b264eb950de9@mail.gmail.com>
(Christopher Morrow's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:11:48 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Christopher Morrow:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> http://www.darkreading.com/securityservices/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216403220
>
> This is different from ATM or FRAME or Private lines how? In the end,
> MPLS is just a transport layer for the private network, if you don't
> secure your data over a transport, shocker, people can see it!!!
People generally believe that MPLS VPNs are encrypted because all VPNs
are encrypted in their world. 8-/
