At 12:58 PM 9/27/04 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >At 11:03 PM 9/24/2004, Peter Gutmann wrote: >>A few days ago I was chatting with some people working on a government IT >>project who had a rather complex security problem that they needed help with. >>They have a large number of users with Windows dumb terminals (think Xterms >>but for Windows) connected to a central ASP server, which runs various >>mutually untrusted apps from different vendors. Their problem was that they >>needed a means of securing the individual apps from each other. >> >>I told them that they were in luck, and this exact problem had already been >>addressed before. I'd drop off the detailed technical specs for the solution >>when I next saw them, they could recognise it by its bright orange cover.
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