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Re: tcp md5 bgp attacks?


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:08:47 -0400



On Aug 14, 2018, at 8:04 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

follow-on question:

anyone using the timed key-chain stuff?

I’ve looked at it, hear it works, but not been willing to take the hit for any transition.

I talked about some of this and other challenges at SAAG WG at IETF 101.  Transport area has some possible interesting 
things, but similar to what Haas said, TCP-AO isn’t really viable yet, and we need something that’s stable enough to 
last 5-7 years, which is very different from a HTTP transaction that may live only a few seconds.

We have some places where we could transition non-BGP protocols and rotate the key, but last I recall it was only there 
on a single vendor so multi-vendor posed some challenges.

- Jared


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