[64898] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Hijacked IP space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Nov 4 10:55:22 2003
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:51:53 -0800
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Those options are not mutually exclusive, and, while I agree that
> it would be better if the RIR's accepted generic GPG keys along
> the lines of what RADB does, the X.509 certificate is not a bad
> first step. At least it's better than Mail-From or Crypt-PW.
>>>> Should we, as a community, register with RIR's with PGP.
>>> Each of the RIRs has either already established, or is in the
>>> process of establishing, a CA for that purpose. Please use
>>> them.
>> thanks, but i choose to have my peers certify my identity, not the
>> rirs
the rirs already accept pgp certs. and i use them, as do all
security-conscious registrants. i was disagreeing with woody's
pushing x.509 certs to the exclusion of pgp certs.
randy
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