Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is not yet the simple fix for the security weaknesses of the internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) many in the communications industry think it is, a team of German researchers has warned.
In a newly published paper, RPKI: Not Perfect But Good Enough, Haya Schulmann and Niklas Vogel from Germany’s ATHENE National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity & Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and Michael Waidner from ATHENE and Technische Universität Darmstadt, outline a daunting range of RPKI issues that still need to be addressed for it to fulfil its promise.
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