The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is flawed, and needs to be fixed. Repairing this protocol would minimize data theft, extortion, state-level espionage, as well as the disruption of security-critical transactions. This is the conclusion of a new roadmap document, published earlier this week by the White House.
The document is called “Roadmap to enhancing internet routing security”, and it discusses the problems, and potential solutions, of BGP.
