Merike Kaeo’s keynote “Waking Up the Guards” at the FIRST 2019 conference (recording now available on YouTube) highlighted how attacks on the internet core no longer target a single service (naming, routing, signing) but move between these to achieve their hostile result. Defenders, too, need to consider the consequences of their implementation choices as a […]
Tag: RPKI
An interesting idea that allows an organisation to prove, cryptographically, the ownership of a block of IP addresses. Unfortunately adopting it has the inevitable consequence of making it possible (by invalidating the cryptography) to make a bloc of IP addresses unusuable. Perspectives vary on whether it is a good thing…