BGP Security
BGP security: an overview of the RPKI framework
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) system is a way to couple an IP address range to an autonomous system number through cryptographic signatures,...
BGP security: the BGPsec protocol
In our last post, we took a look at RPKI. With RPKI, it's possible to reject prefixes that are originated by the wrong AS,...
BGP security: announcing prefixes without authorization
In our last post, we looked at protecting the TCP session that carries BGP information between two routers, mainly against spoofed TCP resets. However,...
BGP Security: the MD5 password and GTSM
Back in the late 1980s and the early 1990s when BGP was developed, security was still an afterthought for protocols used on the internet....