Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:16:45 EDT, Sharon Goldberg said:

> Point 2: "The security threat model is unrealistic and misguided"
>
> Our paper does not present a security threat model at all. We do not
> present a new security solution.

Unfortunately for all concerned, it's going to be *perceived* as a security
solution, and people will invent a threat model to match.  Anybody who thinks
otherwise is invited to compare what people *think* the meaning of the little
padlock their browser displays versus what the padlock *actually* means, or the
difference between what people *think* SPF does for their email versus what it
*actually* does.

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