Sciweavers

SIGCOMM
2004
ACM

SPV: secure path vector routing for securing BGP

13 years 9 months ago
SPV: secure path vector routing for securing BGP
As our economy and critical infrastructure increasingly relies on the Internet, the insecurity of the underlying border gateway routing protocol (BGP) stands out as the Achilles heel. Recent misconfigurations and attacks have demonstrated the brittleness of BGP. Securing BGP has become a priority. In this paper, we focus on a viable deployment path to secure BGP. We analyze security requirements, and consider tradeoffs of mechanisms that achieve the requirements. In particular, we study how to secure BGP update messages against attacks. We design an efficient cryptographic mechanism that relies only on symmetric cryptographic primitives to guard an ASPATH from alteration, and propose the Secure Path Vector (SPV) protocol. In contrast to the previously proposed S-BGP protocol, SPV is around 22 times faster. With the current effort to secure BGP, we anticipate that SPV will contribute several alternative mechanisms to secure BGP, especially for the case of incremental deployments. Cat...
Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, Marvin A. Sirbu
Added 30 Jun 2010
Updated 30 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2004
Where SIGCOMM
Authors Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, Marvin A. Sirbu
Comments (0)