The Three Protocols That Could Bring Down The Internet (And Life as We Know It): DNS, PKI and BGP

You may not have noticed it, but Switzerland has built a secure alternative to BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) [here]:

Why? Well, BGP provides the core of the Internet, but it is a routing protocol that has very little security built into it, and could be used by nation-states to control the Internet. It is also easy to misconfigure and black out large parts of the Internet.

Resiliance

With the recent shutdown of Heathrow for a day, many people are talking about resilience in our critical national infrastructure, and one of the most important parts of this is the Internet. While in the past, we have used leased lines to add resilience to our communications infrastructure, these days, we all use the Internet to provide a reliable and inexpensive way to communicate. Without it, there would be no planes taking off anywhere in the world, and our modern life would grind to a halt much more than with COVID-19. In fact, if it wasn’t for the Internet, the effects of COVID-19 on the world would have been so great. So imagine if the whole of the Internet just shut down…