On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Stephen Kent wrote:

> At 6:36 PM -0500 1/17/12, Eric Osterweil wrote:
>> ...
>> 2 - How do we envision the process of an AS getting its own private key 
>> information installed on all of its routers?*  Without _these_, updates 
>> cannot be signed...
> 
> BGPSEC allows for a per-AS key pair or a per-router key pair.or anything
> in between. Thus, if an AS has routers in locations that the AS operator 
> considers physically insecure, it can choose to have those routers be 
> individually keyed, while having a shared key pair for other routers.
> 
> Yes, this design may require routers to have access to a fairly large number 
> of PUBLIC keys for routers/ASes.

Where "fairly large" could approximate a number that is on the order of the 
number of all BGPsec routers in the global routing system, right (~millions)?  
I would imaging that keeping a coherent cache of these keys at every ISP would 
be a major concern, no?  That's potentially a huge challenge when you include 
churn, revocation, etc, right?

Eric
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