On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:13:19PM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-11-14-15:07:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > [Bruce Schneier is] the author of perhaps the most popular book on
> > computer security that's available to the public.
>
> Which book are you referring to? "Secrets and Lies"? While it's a
Nup.
> If you mean Applied Cryptography, it's certainly the most valuable
Yup.
> > He's generally well regarded - though having sendmail 8.8.8 on
> > the secondary MX of his domain doesn't make you feel super
> > confident :>
>
> As a computer security generalist (as opposed to a cryptanalyst),
> his major thrust seems to be an argument that it's impossible to
> really secure systems, and after perhaps some superficial efforts to
> knock out the biggest problems, the place to concentrate your
> efforts is on monitoring and risk management. With that as a given,
> I expect he runs sendmail and BIND; things like qmail and djbdns are
> for those of us who haven't given up on really completely securing
> our systems:-).
Postfix is on the primary MX, go figure. Biodiversity I suppose...
Regards.
