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Re: [sidr] draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-protocol-13's security guarantees

Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> Wed, 09 September 2015 03:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-protocol-13's security guarantees
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At Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:21:52 -0400, David Mandelberg wrote:
> 
> What does the guarantee about signature order provide? I don't see how 
> it's useful, but I could be missing something.

I can't point to any concrete threat.  Just a suspicion that we should
grab a cheap opportunity to reduce the number of potential violations
of the Principal of Least Astonishment.

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