[54141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Dec 10 19:36:13 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:35:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Harsha Narayan <hnarayan@cs.ucsd.edu>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.32.0212101603430.17682-100000@gradlab.ucsd.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Harsha Narayan wrote:
> > > 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.
> It would require a PKI and also require every router to support it.
Not every... borders are enough.
PKI is not that complicated, too; and routers already have some
implementation of it embedded (in VPN parts).
--vadim