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- Patent Title: Routing protocol security using a distributed ledger
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Application No.: US16228540Application Date: 2018-12-20
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Publication No.: US10893022B1Publication Date: 2021-01-12
- Inventor: Danjue Li , Muhammad Durrani , Chen Xi , Imam Sheikh
- Applicant: Equinix, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: Equinix, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Equinix, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L12/745 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
In one example, a method includes receiving, by a first network device via a routing protocol peering session with a peer router in a first autonomous system, a plurality of routing protocol routes to destination addresses, each routing protocol route specifying a network address prefix and an identifier of the autonomous system that originated the routing protocol route; receiving network address prefix ownership information from a distributed ledger storing a plurality of associations between respective network address prefixes and respective autonomous system identifiers of autonomous systems confirmed to own the respective network address prefixes; determining, based at least on the prefix ownership information, whether any of the plurality of routing protocol routes specifies an autonomous system identifier different than specified by the associations; and in response to determining that one of the routes specifies an autonomous system identifier different than specified by the plurality of associations, performing an action.
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