MD5 considered harmful

Tue Jan 31 05:39:29 UTC 2012

I suppose so but BFD certainly has alot more moving parts then adding
MDF checksums to an existing control packet.  I'm not saying everyone
should turn it on or off for that matter.  I just don't see what the
big deal is.  Most of the shops I've seen have it on because of some
long forgotten engineering standard.

2012/1/30 John Kristoff <jtk at cymru.com>:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:52:41 -0500
> "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, Network Engineers are lazy, impatient, and frequently
>> clueless as well.
>
> While the quantity of peering sessions I've had is far less than
> yours, once upon a time when I had tried to get MD5 on dozens of peering
> sessions I learned quite a bit about those engineers and those
> networks.  I got to find out who couldn't do password management, who
> never heard of MD5 and who had been listening to Patrick.  :-) All good
> input that inform what else I might want to do to protect myself from
> those networks or who I wouldn't mind having a business relationship
> with.
>
> John
>
>