Todd Walton wrote:
On 9/19/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wasn't there a recent discussion here claiming that firewalls are now
antiquated by something fairly new?
Kind of. It was about where the firewall should be placed, and what
it's function should be. See here:
"Death of a firewall" and Xen
http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2005-July/079103.html
Basically, it is a statement that machines inside the network should be
secured as well as if they were outside the network.
One of the things which probably slipped by everybody was the quick
comment about PKI. That means that they are even encrypting traffic
between hosts *inside* their network (a really good idea, but expensive).
It has only been within the last year or two that machines can handle
encrypting every packet without winding up in a smoking heap on the
floor. And I still wouldn't want to make a laptop do that.
-a
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
