[86948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies (was: Re: Wifi Security)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Nov 23 21:04:26 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:03:35 -1000
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
Cc: Sandy Murphy <sandy@tislabs.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> According to what I understand, there have to be two certificates per
> entity:
>
> one is the CA-bit enabled certificate, used to sign subsidiary
> certificates about resources being given to other people to use.
>
> the other is a self-signed NON-CA certificate, used to sign
> route assertions you are attesting to yourself: you make this
> cert using the CA cert you get from your logical parent.
probably more. smb has convinced me that the (possibly ca[0]) cert
i get from the rir, with which i do business with the rir (dns,
ip requests, billing), should be different than that which i use
for routing info.
randy
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[0] - i'll want the business cert to have the ca bit if i am
large enough to have internal authorization process, and
thus want to create and manage different certs for dns,
billing, ...
