[29984] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MD5 in BGP4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jul 12 11:48:58 2000
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:45:17 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: HANSEN CHAN <hansen.chan@alcatel.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 08:26:56AM -0400, HANSEN CHAN wrote:
> 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?
Yes. many providers are now deploying password based bgp
sessions with upstreams/peers/customers as an added security measure.
- jared
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