Better late than never
The White House on Tuesday indicated it hopes to shore up the weak security of internet routing, specifically the Border Gateway Protocol .
BGP more or less glues the internet as we know it together. It's used to manage the routes your online traffic takes between the networks, known as autonomous systems or ASes, that together constitute the internet. As noted in the, published by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director today, BGP wasn't designed with security in mind.
"As initially designed and commonly operating today, BGP does not provide adequate security and resilience features for the risks we currently face," theBGP does not check to see whether a remote network announcing a traffic path change has the authority to do so. Nor does it verify that messages exchanged between networks are authentic, or check whether routing announcements violate business policies between neighboring networks.
"Route hijacks can expose personal information; enable theft, extortion, and state-level espionage; disrupt security-critical transactions; and disrupt critical infrastructure operations," the report says."While most BGP incidents are accidental, the concern over malicious actors has elevated this issue to a national security priority."to look into secure internet routing.
In Europe, according to the White House's roadmap, some 70 percent of BGP routes have published ROAs and are ROV-valid. Elsewhere, adoption is lower. In the US, it's only 39 percent, because the IP space overseen by the American Registry for Internet Numbers is larger and older than that of Europe or Asia, and because the US government itself lags the private sector in RPKI adoption.
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