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Re: [sidr] Burstiness of BGP updates

Shankar K A <shankar.k.a@ericsson.com> Wed, 16 November 2011 05:09 UTC

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From: Shankar K A <shankar.k.a@ericsson.com>
To: Jakob Heitz <jakob.heitz@ericsson.com>, Russ White <russw@riw.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:09:28 +0100
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You cannot use BGP to enable you to send such messages. There could be million other ways to do what you are saying. After this, there is one less chance. That's all.


- Shankar K A 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jakob Heitz 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:36 AM
To: Russ White; Shankar K A
Cc: sidr@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [sidr] Burstiness of BGP updates

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ White [mailto:russw@riw.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:40 PM
> To: Shankar K A
> Cc: Jakob Heitz; sidr@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [sidr] Burstiness of BGP updates
> 
> 
> > But strictly speaking, IMO we should only accept signed updates,
> because it's the number of AS that we add in the update that we are 
> protecting.
> > By accepting unsigned update we may accept unprotected path
> information.
> 
> Precisely my point.

What is the value of that?
Does this now allow me to send passwords in the clear on the internet?

--
Jakob Heitz.

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