On 16 Dec 99, at 21:32, Avi Rubin wrote:

> Absent is a system for secure remote access to the internal web
> from outside. It addresses the problem of secure remote access to a
> site's internal web server from outside the firewall. The goal is
> to give authorized users access to sensitive information, while
> protecting the information from others. We implemented our solution
> using a one-time password scheme for client authentication and SSL
> for confidentiality. Our main design considerations were security,
> performance, ease of use,  vailability, and scale. We were further
> constrained by the desire to leave our firewall and local
> infrastructure unchanged. 

  What is the fundamental difference between this and any other VPN 
implementation?  The source availability?

David G


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