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Re: MD5 in BGP4

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Debertin)
Wed Jul 12 13:44:55 2000

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:49:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dan Debertin <airboss@bitstream.net>
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On 12 Jul 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> Why we haven't seen more of these attacks I don't know for
> sure.

I'll venture a guess -- most attackers are interested in compromising UNIX
boxes, not routers. 


~Dan D.
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