On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
There is a fine line between being dilligent about security, and wasting your time trying to solve problems that don't exist, which I think has been crossed in the discussion.
While TCP-MD5 could be useful in some cases (mainly in Internet Exchanges), I mostly agree with RAS that the big picture isn't necessarily clear. Hence, this is my chance to plug my view of it: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-savola-rtgwg-backbone-attacks-01.t... It's a short document, less than 15 pages. Comments are welcome. The goal of the document is to be able to better convey the real story both between the operator-operator and operator-IETF interfaces :-) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings