Winstar says there is no TCP/BGP vulnerability

Thu Apr 22 21:59:52 UTC 2004

RT> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:11:28 -0500 (CDT)
RT> From: Rob Thomas

RT> We manage well over 150 peering sessions with MD5 passwords
RT> in place.  This includes bogon peering, route-server peering,

CYMRU bogon (et al.) route servers are an example of where MD5 or
IPSec definitely is a good idea.  However, most peer/peer and
carrier/downstream BGP sessions aren't multihop spanning a
network or three.

Of course, if ingress SAV were universal...

Eddy
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