Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade

BobB-nw writes "The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications. DHS says its routing security effort will prevent routing hijack attacks as well as accidental misconfigurations of routing data. The effort is nicknamed BGPSEC because it will secure the Internet's core routing protocol known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). (A separate federal effort is under way to bolster another Internet protocol, DNS, and it is called DNSSEC.) Douglas Maughan, program manager for cybersecurity R&D in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, says his department's spending on router security will rise from around $600,000 per year during the last three years to approximately $2.5 million per year starting in 2009."

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It's a plot!

[PixelThis]

This plan to upgrade router security is a plot? Are there some nefarious evil masterminds behind it?

Re:It's a plot!

[X0563511]

OK smartass...
I'll give you a BGP packet, and you have to replace it with another working BGP packet (with addresses that you want) that has the same hash.

Go ahead. I'll wait for you. Well, not really - I'm sure the universe will reach heat-death before you find one.

Now, assuming you do find one... find some for the whole communication. Also, you only have a few milliseconds to do it.

Starting to sound difficult?

Don't spout off bullshit when you KNOW you have no idea what you are talking about.