[164031] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security over SONET/SDH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sun Jun 23 23:37:38 2013
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:37:20 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <s2KW1l00J1Una3W012KbhL>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/23/2013 9:18 PM, Glen Turner wrote:
>
> On 23/06/2013, at 1:21 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
>> What security protocols are folks using to protect SONET/SDH? At
>> what speeds?
>
>
> "Excuse me NSA, can I have export approval for one KG-530 SDH
> encryptor?" What are the odds :-)
>
> And how would we know that the "export model" isn't simply providing
> a more convenient backdoor for the NSA?
I assumed that the latter is what "NSA Approved" means.
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