[admin] [summary] RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

Tue Feb 26 12:31:34 UTC 2008

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

True, but thats still better than having no authentication at all and
its possible to require strong authentication on inetnum, route and AS
objects. I just cant understand why LIR's like ARIN dont have any decent
methods for this implemented in their DB. Or did this change recently?

-- Arnd