White House brands BGP routing a ‘national security concern’ as it unveils reform roadmap

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The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has published its roadmap for fixing increasingly troublesome security weaknesses in the Internet’s core routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

BGP is infamously prone to configuration errors that can have consequences serious enough to temporarily disrupt parts of the Internet. It’s also the target of attacks that, among other things, maliciously divert traffic.

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