Security over SONET/SDH

Tue Jun 25 19:22:25 UTC 2013

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:19:52PM -0500, Philip Dorr wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it's fair to say, I think, that if you want to  say something on the
> > network it's best that you consider:
> >   1) is the communication something private between you and another party(s)
> >   2) is the communication going to be seen by other than you +
> > the-right-other-party(s)
> >
> > and probably assume 2 is always going to be the case... So, if 1) is
> > true then make some way to keep it private:
> >   ssl + checking certs 'properly' (where is dane?)
> >   gpg + good key material security
> >   private-key/shared-key - don't do this, everyone screws this up.
> 
> SSH + SSHFP + DNSSEC does public/private key pretty well

If one or another of the TLAs hasn't solved, say, the BIGNUM_factoring
problem. If they have, then elliptic curve crypto looks interesting. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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