Security problems in BGP: An overview

Author

Bakkali, Sara ; Benaboud, Hafssa ; Ben Mamoun, Mouad

Author_Institution

Res. Comput. Lab., Mohammed V-Agdal Univ., Rabat, Morocco

fYear

2013

fDate

26-27 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol used to route Internet´s traffic between different Autonomous Systems. The BGP can control the traffic but it is vulnerable to communication interruptions and failures. This weakness could be the source of a several security attacks which could cause serious damages to the inter-domain network. The objective of this paper is to introduce briefly BGP, to present its vulnerabilities, and also to survey some proposed solutions for securing BGP. The paper introduces three secured versions of BGP, secure-BGP (sBGP), secure-origin BGP (soBGP) and pretty-secure BGP (psBGP). It discusses their advantages and identifies their limitations.

Keywords

Internet; computer network reliability; computer network security; routing protocols; telecommunication traffic; Internet traffic; autonomous systems; border gateway protocol; communication failures; communication interruptions; interdomain network; pretty-secure BGP; psBGP; routing protocol; secure-origin BGP; security attacks; security problems; soBGP; traffic control; Internet; Logic gates; Peer-to-peer computing; Routing; Routing protocols; Security; BGP; BGP vulnerabilities; inter-domain security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Security Days (JNS3), 2013 National

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0322-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JNS3.2013.6595458

Filename

6595458