A survey of BGP security issues and solutions

Kevin Butler, Toni R. Farley, Patrick McDaniel, Jennifer L. Rexford

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Abstract

As the Internet's de facto interdomain routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the glue that holds the disparate parts of the Internet together. A major limitation of BGP is its failure to adequately address security. Recent high-profile outages and security analyses clearly indicate that the Internet routing infrastructure is highly vulnerable. Moreover, the design of BGP and the ubiquity of its deployment have frustrated past efforts at securing interdomain routing. This paper considers the current vulnerabilities of the interdomain routing system and surveys both research and standardization efforts relating to BGP security. We explore the limitations and advantages of proposed security extensions to BGP, and explain why no solution has yet struck an adequate balance between comprehensive security and deployment cost.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5357585
Pages (from-to)100-122
Number of pages23
JournalProceedings of the IEEE
Volume98
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2010

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • BGP
  • Border gateway protocol
  • Integrity
  • Interdomain routing
  • Network security
  • Networks
  • Routing

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