Origin Authentication for BGP

3/18/98


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Table of Contents

Origin Authentication for BGP

The Problem: Any AS May Inject Any Prefix

The Ideal Solution

A Pragmatic Solution

The Approach

AS RR

An Example

BGP Listener

Startup

Authentication Successful

Authentication Failure

Unauthenticated

Special Values

Aggregation

DNS Issues

Prefix Encoding Conventions

An Example

Non-byte Aligned Delegation

2.5 Million Queries!

Open Issues

Architectural Direction

What Can We Do?

Acknowledgements

Author: Randy Bush

Email: randy@psg.com

Home Page: http://psg.com/~randy