I-D ACTION:draft-manral-rpsec-existing-crypto-02.txt

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	Title		: Issues with existing Cryptographic 
                          Protection Methods for Routing Protocols
	Author(s)	: V. Manral, et al.
	Filename	: draft-manral-rpsec-existing-crypto-02.txt
	Pages		: 18
	Date		: 2006-2-22

Routing protocols often use cryptographic mechanisms to authenticate
data being received from a neighboring router has not been modified
in transit, and actually originated from the nrighboring router
purporting to have originating the data.  Most of the cryptographic
mechanisms rely on hash algorithms applied to the data in the routing
protocol packet, which means the data is transported, in the clear,
along with the has signature based on the data itself.  These
mechanisms rely on the manual configuration of the keys used to seed,
or build, these hash based sigantures.  This document outlines some
of the problems with manual keying of these cryptographic algorithms.

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