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