[86933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies (was: Re: Wifi Security)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Nov 23 01:41:53 2005
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:41:25 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <17284.3316.448205.661026@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> > the idea is that the *end-user* is supposed to know what's legit
> > and what isn't.
>
> no. all asn admins, including tier 1 through tier 42 and leaf
> asns.
Bah. Forgive my stupidity, please. We got into the discussion of PKI and
PGP-style trust models and I failed to remember the TLA in the subject.
You're right, my comment doesn't apply to BGP (at least not for most
end-users I know).
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