Best practices inquiry: tracking SSH host keys

2006-06-28 Thread Phillip Vandry
We all know that the weakest link of SSH is key management: if you do not confirm by a secure out of band channel that the public host key of the device you are connecting to is correct, then SSH's crypto will not help you. SSH implements neither a CA hierarchy (like X.509 certificates) nor a web

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-18 Thread Phillip Vandry
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:39:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here, the suggestion is that netblocks should > be allocated to cities, not to providers. Within I am a multihomed customer and my ISPs are in two different cities. What are my IP addresses going to be? This situation happens a

Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing

2005-07-28 Thread Phillip Vandry
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:27:58PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > Otherwise how can all my applications support IDN? > > Please read RFC 3490. Thanks for the pointer. It seems like a lot of work to do and much opportunity for it to be done inconsistently from application to application. This shim

Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing

2005-07-28 Thread Phillip Vandry
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:47:14PM +, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > Mozilla Foundation has announced changes to Firefox concerning > Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to deal with homograph spoofing > attacks. Does anyone el

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-12 Thread Phillip Vandry
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:35:37PM -0400, David Andersen wrote: > samples to squeeze into a low bandwidth channel. Enter IP header > compression, which is shockingly effective at compressing IP headers of > all sorts... if you've dedicated 128 bits for the address, and it's > still just as sta

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-12 Thread Phillip Vandry
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:46:53PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > It's getting better all the time, but there are still strange bugs in > the applications, OSes and even the standards. IPv6 works very well > for many things but not so well for others. Fortunately, there is > still plen

prefix filter generation for customers

2003-12-02 Thread Phillip Vandry
Hi, I'm looking for input about how other people deal with this problem: We generate prefix filters for our customers from RADB using their AS or as-set. Our upstreams do the same for us. Our filters are generated with a simple WHOIS query and will pick up objects not only from RADB but from t