Re: [Taps] [Last-Call] Opsdir telechat review of draft-ietf-taps-transport-security-11

Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com> Thu, 16 April 2020 17:19 UTC

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+1 --- unfortunately for the social engineering on TCP-MD5
          Freeloading does not having impeding crisis 
          requiring BGP peer to have social distance from non-secure peer. 
          (smile) 

Sue

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Subject: Re: [Last-Call] [Taps] Opsdir telechat review of draft-ietf-taps-transport-security-11



> On Apr 16, 2020, at 9:55 AM, Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com> wrote:
> 
> Joe: 
> 
> I have come to the same conclusion that an open-source TCP-AO is the 
> next step for TCP-AO.
> 
> I still hoping for some fairy dust ... to fix the BGP TCP security problem. 
> If you have any ... let me know


We have a fix for the security problem. What we lack is a fix for the freeloader problem. 

Other than declaring TCP MD5 a hazard and actively abandoning it, there’s too much of a fallback.

One step might be for the IETF to prohibit support for TCP MD5 in all new work - e.g., there’s pending work in TCPM to develop a YANG model that includes MD5 “for legacy support”, but that only serves to feed the problem. 

But a new solution isn’t going to make freeloading easier.

Joe