Firewall Wizards: Re: tunnel vs open a hole

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

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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