Re: [sidr] pCNT & prepending

XIANG Yang <xiangy08@csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn> Thu, 28 July 2011 15:11 UTC

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+1 support.
It's import to defend "AS removal" attack.
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Yang Xiang, PhD student, Tsinghua Univ., about.me/xiangyang



2011/7/28 Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>

>
> Doug et al,
> I like the general objective of pCNT and this seems a good idea to me.  My
> only comment at the microphone was that if we add this for compression, then
> validation should require that pCNT MUST be equal to the number of
> _contiguous ASx appearances in the path (i.e., no more, no less, and only
> contiguous).
>
> I do wonder if pCNT=0 for transparent route servers introduces the
> opportunity for some sort of downgrade attack of sorts..
>
> -danny
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