Editing Border Gateway Protocol (section)

== Security ==
By design, routers running BGP accept advertised routes from other BGP routers by default. This allows for automatic and decentralized routing of traffic across the Internet, but it also leaves the Internet potentially vulnerable to accidental or malicious disruption, known as [[BGP hijacking]]. Due to the extent to which BGP is embedded in the core systems of the Internet, and the number of different networks operated by many different organizations which collectively make up the Internet, correcting this vulnerability (such as by introducing the use of cryptographic keys to verify the identity of BGP routers) is a technically and economically challenging problem.<ref>{{cite news|author=Craig Timberg |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/31/net-of-insecurity-part-2/|title=Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2015-05-31 |access-date=2015-06-01}}</ref>