Wednesday July 23, 2008 In a similar vein to my attempt to dissuade RIPE from continuing with AS-dot format, James Spenceley has submitted APNIC policy proposal 65 to try get APNIC to change their ways.
( Jul 23 2008, 12:34:42 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]A new, interesting, soft/side-band approach to BGP security: Pretty Good BGP.
No crypto involved, no need for extensive deployment. Just monitoring the BGP routing table and reporting anomolous updates to the operator for further investigation. What's especially interesting is that they claim this system has discovered otherwise unknown hijacks of important prefixes.
( Jul 23 2008, 12:18:13 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]