Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Crocker
At 01:33 AM 9/18/2002 -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: 3. SMTPAUTH does not require an alternate port, yet it is sufficient for ensuring accountability. Hence it is sufficient for dealing with the reason that port 25 is blocked, without requiring that it be blocked. I don't understand this

Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread sgorman1
A little flavor of what I'd alluded to in some of the previous threads. Any guesses what the proposal to change both BGP and DNS to improve security might entail?? White House tackles cybersecurity By Declan McCullagh Special to ZDNet News September 16, 2002, 6:58 PM PT

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little flavor of what I'd alluded to in some of the previous threads. Any guesses what the proposal to change both BGP and DNS to improve security might entail?? The official document should be posted on WhiteHouse.GOV later today. An almost

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
on 9/18/2002 10:12 AM Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little flavor of what I'd alluded to in some of the previous threads. Any guesses what the proposal to change both BGP and DNS to improve security might entail?? The official document should be

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Crocker
At 11:27 AM 9/18/2002 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: NO. Remote port-25 access, with or without SMTPAUTH, implies raw unencrypted plain old TCP/IPv4, in which case there is no connection integrity and thus no accountability. I guess the last 20 years of Internet use have been entirely invalid

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric A. Hall writes: on 9/18/2002 10:12 AM Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little flavor of what I'd alluded to in some of the previous threads. Any guesses what the proposal to change both BGP and DNS to improve security

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: See http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/ Wow, we should all start using out of band management. Anyone think it is feasible to do management of an IP network exclusively out of band? And BGP should be more secure. What is the problem we should be

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Crocker
At 01:09 PM 9/18/2002 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: I guess the last 20 years of Internet use have been entirely invalid then. Not necessarily -- it's a matter of what level of risk is acceptable in a given scenario. Thank you. That was my point. It therefore is essential to pay attention

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:31:41PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: See http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/ Wow, we should all start using out of band management. Anyone think it is feasible to do management of an IP network exclusively

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Barry Shein
On September 18, 2002 at 00:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Crocker) wrote: the claim is that outbound 25 is blocked to prevent spam. however accessing a remote 25 with smtpauth ensures full accountability and, therefore, prevents spam. blocking 25 disables use of this mechanism. Part of

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Francis
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:35:03PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] Much more complex to implement and manage; doesn't scale well. The fewer decisions the anti-spam system has to make, the better it will work. If it only has to decide whether or not a specific IP/port combination has

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Jared Mauch wrote: And BGP should be more secure. What is the problem we should be trying to fix here? There is a Secure BGP draft: http://www.ir.bbn.com/projects/sbgp/draft-clynn-s-bgp-protocol-00a.txt I think the problem that people are attempting to address

More Thoughts on White House Cybersecurity Draft

2002-09-18 Thread Richard Forno
FYI.seeing the discussion today I thought I'd offer this to the group as well. Cheers, rf Original with contextual reference URLS located at: http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2002-11.html America's National Cybersecurity Strategy: Same Stuff, Different Administration Richard Forno (c)

RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

2002-09-18 Thread Kurtis Lindqvist
I know that the capacity throughout the network I was working on at the time was designed to handle peak loads with a comfortable margin, and I would surmise that that is the case on many, if not most networks. It seems obvious that the scope of the analysis of this issue must include

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Wow, we should all start using out of band management. Anyone think it is feasible to do management of an IP network exclusively out of band? Welcome to my nightmare. Getting ISPs to participate is always difficult. I encourage ISPs to read