Dear WG

One thing the authors noted was that there may be discussion needed around the 
filtering of BGPSec assertions based on matching SKI - as the document 
currently says. This was added mainly in an attempt to make the spec feature 
complete and give an operator full freedom on filter rules.

SKIs use SHA-1. And recently it has been shown that SHA-1 collisions can be 
generated. This could lead one to believe that filtering of assertions based on 
a SKIs may not be a good idea. However, it should be noted that such collisions 
are probably irrelevant here. A ‘malicious' CA can always issue another router 
certificate for an existing (and requested) router certificate SKI and public 
key. So ‘collisions’ can exist anyway and a more secure hashing algorithm would 
not help.

The more fundamental question here is if it is really useful to have filtering 
based on the key itself - and if so - should it be possible to filter on the 
key alone (as the draft allows) or only in combination with an asserted ASN for 
that key (also allowed in this draft)?

As said it was mainly added for feature completeness, but it would be good to 
hear from this WG what the thoughts are. Personally I don’t see a big issue 
here - and would leave it to operators to use the options as they see fit.  But 
if there are concerns and there is no clear use case then I for one would be 
happy to take it out again in which case BGPSec assertions can only be filtered 
on matching ASN.

Cheers
Tim

> On 10 Apr 2017, at 17:49, Sandra Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The authors of draft-ietf-sidr-slurm-04, "Simplified Local internet nUmber 
> Resource Management with the RPKI”, have indicated that they believe the 
> current version includes all wg comments and is mature and ready for working 
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