Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if your contractor has carefully configured the laptop to > give all the right answers? What if it has already been infected with > a virus that causes it to give all the right answers?
Yes, that's a problem with NEA. No, it's not a problem for many (if not most) people using NEA. The people I talk with plan on using NEA to catch the 99% case of a misconfigured/unknown system that is used by a well-meaning but perhaps less clueful employee or contractor. The purpose of NEA is to enhance network security by allowing fewer insecure end hosts in the network. No one can prevent a determined attacker from getting in. But by providing fewer hosts for him to attack, the attacks become less feasibly, and more visible. Alan DeKok. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
