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Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Jul 07 17:50:14 2000 
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:55:42 PDT, Dan Hollis said:
> If its spoofed it wouldnt get into the blackhole list. Pretty simple.

Simple to say.  Hard to secure against a determined attacker.

Go and *re*-read Ken Thompson's Turing Award Lecture "On Trusting Trust".

Then start thinking paranoid. ;)

(What, you haven't read it the FIRST time?  Citation:

@ARTICLE{Trusting.Trust,
        author={Ken Thompson},
        title={Reflections on Trusting Trust},
        journal={Communications of the ACM},
        volume=27,
        number=8,
        month=Aug,
        year=1984,
        pages="761-763"
}


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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech

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