25 Feb
2008
25 Feb
'08
1:49 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
How about state-of-the-art routing security?
The problem is what is the actual trust model? Are you trusting some authority to not be malicious or never make a mistake? There are several answers to the malicious problem. There are fewer answers to never making a mistake problem. The state of the art routing security proposals let the "trusted" securely make mistakes. At one time or another, I think every router vendor, every ASN operator, every RIR, and so on has made a mistake at some time. Yeah, I know some of those mistakes may have actually been malicious, but so far the mistakes have outnumbered the malicious. If someone comes up with the anti-mistake routing protocol ...