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Comment Re:Good (Score 2, Informative) 676

by InvisibleCraterFunk (#8923380) Attached to: TCP Vulnerability Published
"BGP lies on top of TCP so if you are able to kill the underlying TCP session I don't think MD5 authentication protects against this. Anyone care to enlighten me?"

The MD5 protection happens at the TCP layer. Each TCP segment is verified. TCP MD5 could be used for other things than BGP. So yes, TCP MD5 would mitigate the attack sufficiently for now.

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