[ih] Source routing, IEN 80, and IEN 95

[Miles Fidelman]

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> At 0:40 +0200 2010/08/06, Matthias Bärwolff wrote:
>>>> My question: have people actually been using it for purposes other 
>>>> than
>>>> spoofing attacks? What about routing debugging? And, load balancing?
>
> More recently, it looks like source routing is being used in some of 
> the experimental routing models applied in MANETs (mobile ad hoc 
> networks) - for example DSR (Dynamic Source Routing), 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4728 - the basic model is that nodes do 
> "route discovery," to find paths to other nodes, and then use source 
> routing to push packets along those routes.  There's a pretty good 
> list of various MANET protocols on Wikipedia, at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_routing_protocol_list
>
> I haven't dug further, but I expect that source routing becomes a lot 
> more secure if you add some cryptographic authentication into the mix.
Well, it turns out that there is quite a bit about combining source 
routing with encryption in a MANET context - if you're interested, try 
googling:
"source routing" MANET encryption
or
secure DSR

Miles Fidelman

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