lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [Mar]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support
Date
From
> 	My interest for this is mostly for Zebra to be able to make secure BGP 
> connections, so I would also contribute a patch for Zebra to support this
> feature on Linux.

For minimal versions of secure ?

Since this memo was first issued (under a different title), the MD5
algorithm has been found to be vulnerable to collision search attacks
[Dobb], and is considered by some to be insufficiently strong for
this type of application.

You'll also find that with SACK it doesn't fit in the tcp header..

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:24    [W:0.120 / U:1.468 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site