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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP Encryption, part 2 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:13:54 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <324F10C2.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960929121424.16142A-100000@darkstar> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Charles Mott wrote: > I think that a well thought out, operationally efficient, tcp encryption > standard would benefit network users. I think the FreeBSD community, > being small but widespread, would be a good starting place for such > development. Well, despite my coming down firmly on the "put it in the application layer" side of the argument (and your comments about data security down at the "general privacy" level can and may still be addressed by simply changing the default policy of groups like of Netscape and Apache to make secure comms the norm, or by using encrypting proxy agents), I'm always willing to be proven wrong! ;-) Whatever you guys come up with, I'm certainly willing to look at it. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project