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Re: Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jun 10 09:32:52 2015

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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Russ White <russw@riw.us>
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>> rtfm.  bgpsec key aggregation is at the descretion of the operator.
>> they could use one key to cover 42 ASs.
> 
> I've been reading the presentations and the mailing lists, both of
> which imply you should use one key per router for security reasons.
> I would tend to agree with that assessment, BTW.

folk have different threat models.  yours (and mine) may be
propagation of router compromise.  for others, it might be a subtle
increase in disclosure of router links.  contrary to your original
assertion, the protocol supports both.

randy

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