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Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Dec 10 18:45:17 2002

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:41:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Harsha Narayan <hnarayan@cs.ucsd.edu>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.32.0212100949100.5077-100000@gradlab.ucsd.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Harsha Narayan wrote:

> Key databases:
> Using cryptography to authenticate routing updates gets messy very soon.
> Then, there will again be the same problem of the Public Key Infrastucture
> not getting updated or something like that.

Hard to do it right, yes, but not impossible. (Actually I did strong 
crypto for a living last few years, so I think I have somewhat informed 
opinion on the subject :)

--vadim


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