Re: SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Steve Suehring
SSL won't be of any help if there's another exploit against IIS servers. If someone can get to the IIS server and there's an exploit, SSL won't do anything except encrypt their exploit traffic. SSL helps to encrypt the data but won't help to make the IIS server any more secure. SSL helps unde

Re: SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> Due to the fact that this IIS server is exposed to the internet, we > obviously need to secure it as best we can. apt-cache show pound This is a tool built specifically for such purpose. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9

Re: SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Steve Suehring
SSL won't be of any help if there's another exploit against IIS servers. If someone can get to the IIS server and there's an exploit, SSL won't do anything except encrypt their exploit traffic. SSL helps to encrypt the data but won't help to make the IIS server any more secure. SSL helps unde

SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Craig Schneider
Title: SSL / VPN ?? Hi Guys I have a question about securing web traffic through a Linux based firewall doing port forwarding to an internal IIS web server. Due to the fact that this IIS server is exposed to the internet, we obviously need to secure it as best we can. IIS uses https but

Re: SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> Due to the fact that this IIS server is exposed to the internet, we > obviously need to secure it as best we can. apt-cache show pound This is a tool built specifically for such purpose. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCR

SSL / VPN ??

2004-04-22 Thread Craig Schneider
Title: SSL / VPN ?? Hi Guys I have a question about securing web traffic through a Linux based firewall doing port forwarding to an internal IIS web server. Due to the fact that this IIS server is exposed to the internet, we obviously need to secure it as best we can. IIS uses https but