On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:05:21AM -0700, Christopher Jay Manders wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but it is very sad that > the password for BGP AUTH is in clear-text. > > Is there anything in progress to rectify or discussion about this?
Hi There is not much to discuss. Because the way how it is used, the password must be in clear-text-recoverable form. The bird.conf could be protected by unix access rights if necessary. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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