On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:41 AM, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:

> Now that doesn't imply afaict that the surface of the attack will be bigger, 
> just that it is harder to identify.

Disagree.  Confusion in and of itself represents a broadening of the attack 
surface.

> Second, it is not obvious to me why having different origins for each anycast 
> location makes this situation any easier in the case of a malicious attacker 
> (Who is could potentially include a false origin in its announcement)

At the moment, there are out-of-band mechanisms which in many (not all) 
instances can be utilized to sort the sheep from the goats.  Obviously, 
technological - and therefore more automagic - mechanisms for doing so are 
preferred, and there is considerable activity in that regard (i.e., rPKI).

_______________________________________________
GROW mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow

Reply via email to