Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!

1999-04-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
The rest of the hype aside -- and without DNSsec, their claims about securing the whole Internet through IPsec are overblown -- this part strikes me as very dangerous: 2. Self-Decrypting Archives. You may now encrypt >files or folders into Self-Decrypting Archives >(SDA) which can be sen

linux-ipsec: PGPnet interoperable with FreeSWAN

1999-04-06 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 18:06:13 -0700 From: Will Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: linux-ipsec: PGPnet interoperable with FreeSWAN Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Network Associates announced PGP 6.5 today

re: is there a searchable archive for this list ?

1999-04-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
I had asked this question a while back. I note that the mail archive site is now searchable but I do not know how far back the archives extend. Udhay -- _ http://www.unimedia.n

Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!

1999-04-06 Thread Michael Paul Johnson
At 10:21 PM 4/5/1999 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: >The rest of the hype aside -- and without DNSsec, their claims about >securing the whole Internet through IPsec are overblown -- this part >strikes me as very dangerous: > > 2. Self-Decrypting Archives. You may now encrypt >>files or folde

Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!

1999-04-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Paul Johnson write s: > > Of course this is dangerous, but there is a demand for it. Not everyone > wants bomb-proof security. I wrote a self-decrypting archive program once, > and the people using it are happy with it. It would be easy, of course, to > su

IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread Robert Hettinga
Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has the oomph to do IPSEC? I'm thinking about that active badge stuff, where you beam yourself an environment and file access onto the nearest larger machine... Cheers, RAH - Robert A. Hettinga Philodox Finan

Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!

1999-04-06 Thread Jim Gillogly
Michael Paul Johnson wrote: >> Of course this is dangerous, but there is a demand for it. Not everyone >> wants bomb-proof security. ... The real cure, of course, is to so >> tightly and easily integrate security into email that it is as easy >> as this to use, but not as risky. Steven M. Bellovi

Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!

1999-04-06 Thread John R Levine
> > There's bomb-proof security, and there's "security" that itself is a time > > bomb. I fear that self-extracting decryptors are much closer to > > the latter than to the former -- very much closer. At this stage, it's hard to see much justification for self-extracting crypto any more. There

RE: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread William Whyte
> Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has > the oomph to do IPSEC? > > I'm thinking about that active badge stuff, where you beam yourself an > environment and file access onto the nearest larger machine... I did a back-of-an-envelope calculation recently which

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article , Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has >the oomph to do IPSEC? The secret word is "proxy". >I'm thinking about that active badge stuff, where you beam yourself a

Re: PGP 6.5/PGPnet Announcement!

1999-04-06 Thread Michael Paul Johnson
At 01:14 PM 4/6/1999 -0700, Jim Gillogly wrote: >Michael Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Of course this is dangerous, but there is a demand for it. Not everyone >>> wants bomb-proof security. ... The real cure, of course, is to so >>> tightly and easily integrate security into email that it is as easy >>>

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread Ben Laurie
Robert Hettinga wrote: > > Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has > the oomph to do IPSEC? I do know that an old version of SSLeay was ported to it, and I intend to port OpenSSL at some point. Good reasons for doing so will obviously accelerate the process. Re

RE: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread David Honig
At 09:58 PM 4/6/99 +0100, William Whyte wrote: >> Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has >> the oomph to do IPSEC? >> >> I'm thinking about that active badge stuff, where you beam yourself an >> environment and file access onto the nearest larger machine... > >

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Perhaps, for the applications Bob is thinking about, your port of the SSH client could suffice. Enzo -Original Message- From: Ian Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: isaac.lists.cryptography To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 6:01 AM Subject: R