In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe Abley writes: > > > On 4-Mar-2008, at 10:14, Vishwas Manral wrote: > > > I was talking about the RIPE whois and other related tools that RIPE > > provides, when I looked at the link given below: > > http://www.ripe.net/news/study-youtube-hijacking.html > > > > As the tools cannot be accessed using https but using http, the tools > > cannot be used in a guaranteed fashion. We cannot build scripts over > > the tools and feel the information. > > I had no idea they were available over http. Everybody I know who uses > them uses whois. > > As to "cannot build", that doesn't seem to be an opinion shared by the > many ISPs who "have built". > > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > Sidr mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
http://www.ripe.net/db/support/update-reference-manual.pdf Read the abstract and you'll find out what is used for security. Its a bit old but it works. The query or update is in the clear (not encrypted) but can be authenticated with a signature over the contents. Curtis _______________________________________________ Sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
