Re: Simple Pimple firewalls

[Jeffery . Gieser]

#Roy G. Culley wrote:
#For sure when everyone
#uses encryption the job of a firewall administrator is over.

#Gary Flynn wrote:
#I don't understand that statement.

     Unless a firewall has the decryption key for encrypted traffic, the
firewall cannot check the encrypted portion of traffic at all.  If all
traffic were encrypted then the firewall would become just another hop on
the network.

     The idea behind a firewall i.e. filtering out unwabted traffic is
going to be a valid and necessary security measure for a while.  Instead of
having one chokepoint on the network we may have distributed firewalling on
all hosts or multiple chokepoints.

Regards,
Jeffery Gieser

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