[Babel-users] babeld-2.0

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Dave Taht wrote:

> On 04/22/2010 10:42 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>>> I am curious if you have considered adding a security extension to any
>>> extent in the upcoming releases?
>>>     
>> No.  What do you have in mind?
>> 
>>                                         Juliusz
>>   
> 
> I saw you had left room for it, throughout the protocol specification. A problem with all the mesh routing protocols available to date is the total lack of security in them.
> 
> The only halfway decent IPv6 capable AND secure protocols are BGP and OSPFv3, and secure OSPF under ipv6 requires (shudder) IPsec in order to work. ( Actually, somebody got OSPF and IPV6 and IPSEC to work recently - 

Why do you think BGP is secure?

"secure" in a social retribution sense - yes. Secure by design - I am not so sure.

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PS: what Benjamin mentioned goes back to a paper by Microsoft research. If you want I can search for it.