From: Florian Weimer (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2009 - 15:01:37 EST
* Hank Nussbacher:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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>> MD5 is broken, don't use it for anything important.
>
> You mean like for BGP neighbors?
Good point. However, as a defense against potential blind injection
attacks, even an unhashed password in a TCP option would do the trick
(at least in the non-IXP case, IXPs may pose different challenges).
> Wanna suggest an alternative? :-)
Just switch on IPsec. 8-)
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