BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis
RFC 4272, “BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis”, is an Informational document published in January 2006 by S. Murphy. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), along with a host of other infrastructure protocols designed before the Internet environment became perilous, was originally designed with little consideration for protection of the information it carries. There are no mechanisms internal to BGP that protect against attacks that modify, delete, forge, or replay data, any of which has the potential to disrupt overall network routing behavior.
This document discusses some of the security issues with BGP routing data dissemination. This document does not discuss security issues with forwarding of packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4
- RFC 4273 Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4
- RFC 4274 BGP-4 Protocol Analysis
- RFC 4275 BGP-4 MIB Implementation Survey
- RFC 4276 BGP-4 Implementation Report
- RFC 4277 Experience with the BGP-4 Protocol
- RFC 4278 Standards Maturity Variance Regarding the TCP MD5 Signature Option and the BGP-4 Specification
- RFC 4263 Media Subtype Registration for Media Type text/troff