Routing Insecurity (Re: BGP in the Washington Post)

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed Jun 10 01:19:23 UTC 2015


On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:09:45 -0400, David Mandelberg said:
> I don't think there's an update issue here. The crypto verification is
> probably going to be deferred in addition to being low priority. If I
> understand it correctly, this means that a route can be passed along
> right away without waiting for the crypto checks.

Forward the route and then check it?

Didn't we have a very amusing afternoon a number of years ago when $VENDOR
did exactly that with some invalid routing data? Or am I mis-remembering
history, and therefor doomed to mis-repeat it?
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