[140239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu May 5 15:52:35 2011
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 15:48:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <A33A7BDC-CD34-4819-A996-59FA1A392161@cs.columbia.edu>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> > Encryption is probably overkill anyway. What is needed is a mechanism
> > simply to say that the content is certified to have come from the source
> > it claims to come from. So ... basically ... better not to use
> > multicast for anything you really might have any security issues
> > with. Fine for broadcasting a video, not so fine for a kernel update.
> >
> See the work of the IETF MIKEY working group.
He won't like it. He hates everything.
Cheers,
-- jra
