Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. BGP is classified as a path-vector routing protocol, and it makes ...
Security (BGPsec) is a security extension of the
Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. BGP is classified as a path-vector routing protocol, and it makes ...
defined in RFC 8205, published in September 2017. BGPsec provides to receivers of valid BGPsec UPDATE messages cryptographic verification of the routes they advertise. BGPsec replaces the BGP
AS_PATH attribute with a new
BGPsec_Path attribute.
BGPsec RFCs
* - BGPsec Protocol Specification
* - BGPsec Considerations for Autonomous System (AS) Migration
* - BGPsec Operational Considerations
* - BGPsec Algorithms, Key Formats, and Signature Formats
* - A Profile for BGPsec Router Certificates, Certificate Revocation Lists, and Certification Requests
See also
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Autonomous system (Internet)
An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined rou ...
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Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. BGP is classified as a path-vector routing protocol, and it makes ...
References
Routing protocols
Cryptographic protocols
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