Re: [fw-wiz] tunnel vs open a hole

From: Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Date: 04/08/03

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    From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Frederick M Avolio <fred@avolio.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:40:57 -0400

    On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:07:08PM -0400, Frederick M Avolio wrote:
    |
    | Of course, encryption exacerbates the problem. :-) We can then gain a
    | tremendously high level of assurance that Dave Piscitello did something
    | over SSL to a particular IP address from a particular IP address. Which
    | adds authentication and little else on top of the paragraph you cited:

    Dave's a security expert. Their systems are notoriously 0wned. All
    we really know is that Dave, or one of the 350 kiddies who trade his
    passwords for a lark, did something. ;)

    Adam

    (Note to the sarcasm impaired: Dave and I have never met. I have no
    idea how secure or insecure his personal computer is. I've never seen
    a list of his passwords being traded.) 

    -- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume
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