[admin] [summary] RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

Tue Feb 26 12:09:02 UTC 2008

On 26/02/2008 12:06, "Arnd Vehling" <av at nethead.de> wrote:

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> With a decent LIR DB (like the RIPE DB) this is only possible if an
> hijacker breaks the authentication of the according database objects
> which is a pain in the a** _if_ the objects use a proper authentication
> scheme like PGP.

I wonder what percentage of maintainers in the RIPE database only have PGP
and/or X.509 auth schemes. I'd be surprised if it was as high as 5%.

Leo