[164108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security over SONET/SDH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sam@wwcandt.com)
Tue Jun 25 18:38:54 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130625133536.D4846B79@m0005296.ppops.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: sam@wwcandt.com
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: sam@wwcandt.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The sticky problem remains for any communications carrier, we are looking
for a technical solution to a legal problem.
I believe that if you encrypted your links sufficiently that it was
impossible to siphon the wanted data from your upstream the response would
be for the tapping to move down into your data center before the crypto.
With CALEA requirements and the Patriot Act they could easily compel you
to give them a span port prior to the crypto.
Regardless of how well built our networks are internally and externally we
still must obey a court order.
Sam
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>
> --- morrowc.lists@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:02 PM, William Allen Simpson
> <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> :: ...in addition to everything else "What security protocols
> :: are folks using to protect SONET/SDH? At what speeds?"
>
> : Correct.
>
> : But the answer appears to be: none. Not Google. Not any
> : public N/ISP.
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>
>> would they say if they had?
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>
>
> Yes, especially in light of the current news regarding
> internet privacy. Could you imagine the advertising
> they'd be able to do to prospective customers?
>
> scott
>
