Dear Derek, you should have a look at http://whitehouse.gov/pcipb to see what Dick Clarke, as an @large user, thinks of BGP in terms of national security. And what GWB signed, but not enforced yet. france@large members ran a series of national internet security oriented meetings in France a few years ago (including at Research Ministry). This lead them to create an organization (AFRAC) to investigate that kind of threats, DNS archives intelligence leaks, referential (secure extended distributed IANA) pollution risks, root system hijacking, etc. All this has contributed to the Internet Plus project. Not to re-engineer the Internet, but for the inrterested @large Internet lead users to try to commonly re-engineer our usage of the Internet before we all go under with it or be "saved" by an industry consortium. jfc At 18:38 28/08/2008, Derek Smythe wrote:
Khaled KOUBAA wrote:
Re-engineering the Internet
Source : http://iftf.org/node/2275
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Interesting timing !
"Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination."
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/how-to-intercep.html
Regards
Derek
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