[54139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harsha Narayan)
Tue Dec 10 19:04:53 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:04:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Harsha Narayan <hnarayan@cs.ucsd.edu>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
Cc: Harsha Narayan <hnarayan@cs.ucsd.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212101538450.613-100000@arch.exigengroup.com>
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Hi,
It would require a PKI and also require every router to support it.
Harsha.
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>
> 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
>
