BGP, or the Border Gateway Protocol, is a widely-used protocol that allows very large networks, such as the Internet, to be able to scale. While BGP was originally developed for Internet routing, now it is used in some large institutional networks as well. This two-part post will discuss one proposed model for improving BGP security, based on a talk given by...

BGP, or the Border Gateway Protocol, is a widely-used protocol that allows very large networks, such as the Internet, to be able to scale. It is built on the concept of "transitive trust," which will be described below. While BGP was originally developed for Internet routing, now it is used in some large institutional networks as well. This two-part post will...