Paper 2014/444
RPKI vs ROVER: Comparing the Risks of BGP Security Solutions
Aanchal Malhotra and Sharon Goldberg
Abstract
Route Origin Verification (ROVER), a mechanism for securing interdomain routing with BGP, is a proposed alternative to the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). While the RPKI requires the design and deployment of a completely new security infrastructure, ROVER leverages existing reverse DNS and DNSSEC deployments. Both ROVER and RPKI are based on a hierarchy of authorities that are trusted to provide information about the routing system. It has been argued recently that misconfigurations or compromises of the RPKI's trusted authorities can present new risks to the routing system. Meanwhile, the advocates of ROVER claim that it provides a "fail-safe" approach, where the Internet will continue to work as it is even when ROVER fails. This poster therefore compares the impact of ROVER failures to those of the RPKI.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Minor revision. Poster at SIGCOMM 2014
- Keywords
- Routing SecurityPublic-key InfrastructureDNS
- Contact author(s)
- aanchal4 @ bu edu
- History
- 2014-06-18: last of 2 revisions
- 2014-06-13: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2014/444
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/444,
author = {Aanchal Malhotra and Sharon Goldberg},
title = {{RPKI} vs {ROVER}: Comparing the Risks of {BGP} Security Solutions},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/444},
year = {2014},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/444}
}
