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Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition
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Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition

by Sam Halabi, Danny McPherson
August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
Cisco Press
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TCP MD5 Signature Option

The TCP MD5 Signature Option, defined in RFC 2385 [8], is used to help BGP protect itself from spoofed TCP segments and, particularly, TCP resets. The TCP MD5 Signature Option employs MD5's message digest algorithm, defined in RFC 1321[9]. More details regarding the usefulness of the TCP MD5 Signature Option can be found in the specification.

The extension provides a mechanism for TCP to carry a digest message in each TCP segment, where the digest utilizes information known only to the connection end points and acts as a signature for the segment.

Applying the MD5 algorithm to the following items, in the order listed, produces the digest created for a given segment:

  1. TCP pseudo-header, in this order: source IP address, ...

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