[29980] in North American Network Operators' Group
MD5 in BGP4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HANSEN CHAN)
Wed Jul 12 08:37:16 2000
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:26:56 -0400
From: "HANSEN CHAN" <hansen.chan@alcatel.com>
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Hi folks,
I understand that MD5 is quite commonly used in IGP such as OSPF but not
in BGP4. Am I correct? Can someone explain to me why? Shouldn't one be
more concerned the session being hijacked when talking to another
network?
Thanks,
Hansen
