I think that Hank raises a very good question. There has been
a very active discussion of this on NANOG, both re SSL, BGP and in general.

Here is the original link :

<http://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-break-ssl-using-200-ps3s/ >

Regards
Marshall

Begin forwarded message:

From: Hank Nussbacher <[email protected]>
Date: January 4, 2009 2:22:06 AM EST
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected] > Subject: Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5 flaw.

At 06:44 PM 03-01-09 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

You mean like for BGP neighbors?  Wanna suggest an alternative? :-)

Well, most likely MD5 is better than the alterantive today which is to run no authentication/encryption at all.

But we should push whoever is developing these standards to go for SHA-1 or equivalent instead of MD5 in the longer term.

Who is working on this?  I don't find anything here:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idr-charter.html

All I can find is:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2385.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3562.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4278.txt

Nothing on replacing MD5 for BGP.

-Hank



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