At 10:09 AM 5/28/99 , Larry Claman wrote:
> I won't comment on this, other than
>to say that many (most) security experts still distrust NT.
And why is that, exactly? Is this distrust based on an analysis of how the
firewall and OS interact? If someone wants to argue that the OS has a
major role in determining the performance and stability of a firewall
platform, I'll allow that as given. But if someone tells me the OS affects
the security of the firewall, then I'd be interested in knowing *why* they
believe that's true. No points given for "because it's NT". :-)
Hypothetically, suppose there was a firewall that had code sitting right
about the network drivers that grabbed the packets, processed them, and
sent them back down to the network drivers. From a security perspective,
would you be concerned about the OS or the firewall code?
Chris
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