[56250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP to doom us all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (batz)
Fri Feb 28 21:06:19 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:50:35 -0500 (EST)
From: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Jim Deleskie <jdeleski@rci.rogers.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E18owGt-000K9z-00@rip.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Randy Bush wrote:
:> I think the only problem with the comments is that they
:> over-estimate the benefit of that level of security relative
:> to the overhead it requires.
:
:crypto hardware has become cheap.
Cheap to buy, but the time for processing each certificate will
increase with the size of the routing table, and we just end up
replicating the problem of recalculating large routing tables,
but now with certification, no?
--
batz
