Our Info Sec folks do not consider traffic across CTCA to be vulnerable. I would suspect the same to hold true for Hipersockets (even though we aren't using any at the time for VM, so I cannot say for sure).
I suspect that whoever drew up the requirement had not yet outgrown their ADHD. Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leland Lucius Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hipersockets and security??? Okay, I need y'alls help. I have a security team that is demanding that we encrypt traffic between 2 Linux guests communicating across real hipersockets. I admit that my brain sometimes works about as well as a frog wielding a jack hammer, but isn't it rather ridiculous to encrypt data across hipersockets? What would the purpose be other than to satisfy some overdone security requirements??? Any pointers to some industry recognized security certification (may) help. Thanks much, Leland
