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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:13:27AM -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> and we'll have some very sharp technical guys in the audience, including
> some folks from very large ISPs that are most likely to be affected, 

I predict half will agree that this could be a serious issue,
while the other half will claim it is absolutely a non-issue and will
resent the first half for making them turn on MD5 auth on their BGP
connections. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org