Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-19 Thread Alex Alten
At 10:18 AM 3/18/2002 -0600, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Allen Simpson writes: The Purple Streak (Hilarie Orman) wrote: ... But Bill, I'm trying to understand what your point is. We can't force people to use security. IPsec is standard in most major business

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Allen Simpson writes: The Purple Streak (Hilarie Orman) wrote: Mild-mannered S. Kent is in reality SuperNoSecMan. He adds the essential anti-replay counter to IPsec protocols and, ... causes people to NOT adopt them? Actually, of course, Steve Kent did

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread Brian Lloyd
At 03:49 PM 3/13/2002, William Allen Simpson wrote: 10 years ago tomorrow, Brian Lloyd and I had a rubber hose lunch meeting with Steve Kent, who as a member of the IAB had refused to allow the PPP WG to publish CHAP in our RFC as an official authentication protocol. (He had previously mandated

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread RJ Atkinson
On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 08:01 , William Allen Simpson wrote: ... I didn't happen to be at that ad-hoc meeting in San Diego, so I wasn't influenced by it No, but you were at the meetings where swIPe was demonstrated -- ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATED -- and where the the packet headers were

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread George Michaelson
But Bill, I'm trying to understand what your point is. We can't force people to use security. IPsec is standard in most major business operating systems (Win2K, Solaris, *BSD, etc.) and available for for Linux. There are hardware solutions -- I have a small IPsec box with me in

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
RJ Atkinson wrote: On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 08:01 , William Allen Simpson wrote: ... I didn't happen to be at that ad-hoc meeting in San Diego, so I wasn't influenced by it No, but you were at the meetings where swIPe was demonstrated -- ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATED -- and where the

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Allen Simpson writes: Right. The only copy I could find was from 1996, but I don't think that that difference is important. (http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-simpson-ipsec-enhancement-00.txt) Remember, the WG chair

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread Dan McDonald
I set up VPN over IPSEC on a national academic network with 40mbit backbone and 10/100 mbit site linkspeeds. the best end-to-end performance I could get was 2mbit rising to 3-4 burst, and I was flooded by fragmented IP. You should try (again?) a more modern implementation. Stuff like pMTU

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread The Purple Streak (Hilarie Orman)
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It was certain members of the WG who insisted we didn't need the counter. At least one has admitted he was wrong. Are you ever going to admit you were? I didn't realize that a call for admission had been previously issued. Sure, I was

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-16 Thread The Purple Streak (Hilarie Orman)
The IETF falls into comicbook mode as April 1 approaches. Mild-mannered S. Kent is in reality SuperNoSecMan. He adds the essential anti-replay counter to IPsec protocols and, ... causes people to NOT adopt them? He is a superb document editor and reviewer, and this makes security worse? He

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
RJ Atkinson wrote: On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 06:49 , William Allen Simpson wrote: 10 years ago on Tuesday, Phil Karn sprawled out across my hotel room bed and drew the packet header that became ESP. Actually, that packet header wasn't directly related to ESP, though there aren't

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
The Purple Streak (Hilarie Orman) wrote: Mild-mannered S. Kent is in reality SuperNoSecMan. He adds the essential anti-replay counter to IPsec protocols and, ... causes people to NOT adopt them? Actually, of course, Steve Kent did not add the counter. It was in swIPe, from the beginning.

10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
10 years ago this week, we had an IETF meeting in San Diego. 10 years ago on Tuesday, Phil Karn sprawled out across my hotel room bed and drew the packet header that became ESP. (Remember when we were small enough to have hotel room BOFs?) 10 years today, at a lunch meeting, Phil Karn

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-14 Thread RJ Atkinson
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 06:49 , William Allen Simpson wrote: 10 years ago on Tuesday, Phil Karn sprawled out across my hotel room bed and drew the packet header that became ESP. Actually, that packet header wasn't directly related to ESP, though there aren't but so many ways a