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White House plan looks to secure BGP
- 1oooqooq 2y agonot much details other than isp proving their plans... wonder if they're aiming for control a la ICANN or isolation a la China.
- dc396 2y agoNeither. They're promoting a system that reduces the risk of router misconfiguration that causes routing leaks, etc., and, in theory, can (someday) be used to help prevent routing hijacks. Not a bad thing, at least conceptually. However, RPKI does create a public key infrastructure with 5 roots (one for each of the RIRs) which will be used to flag particular routes as valid or invalid. This may be concerning as the RIRs were never intended to do this sort of thing and the fact that there are five roots vastly increases the potential attack surface. Interesting times.