On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote:
> MD5 on BGP sessions is the canonical example of a cure worse than the 
> disease.  There has been /infinitely/ more downtime caused by MD5 than the 
> mythical attack it protects again.  (This is true because anything times zero 
> is still zero.)
>

I don't disagree with patrick here... but 'infinitely more', is hard
to measure :) "Most likely there have been far more lengthy outages
due to lost/changed/incorrect key material than were caused by the
problem this is meant to solve for."

-chris

> It is

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