On Apr 4, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

>> some folks (not me) suggest that ipsec is the way to go here... (bgp I
>> mean) I think one point to keep in mind is that tcp-ao has exactly
>> zero implementations... while SSH implementations abound.
> 
> turns out that
> 
>  o yfv may have ssh client and server, but they do not have the library
>    in a form usable by arbitrary apps, e.g. bgp
> 
>  o no ao impls on unix, slowlaris, linuxes, ...
> 
> so i would really love to hear from the security folk if we can do
> something like hmac-md5 as the mandatory to implement.

Getting a new application (such as the rtr protocol) specifying hmac-md5 
mandatory to implement through a Secdir review and then the Security ADs just 
won't happen. The only exception I can think of is if there were no possible 
alternatives, and that's obviously not the case here.

Brian 
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