----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Petch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [Syslog] Charter comments from IESG Review
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Sam I struggle to think what a security system would look > Tom> like when the protocol is purely simplex, apart from a MAC to > Tom> give integrity with some shared secret transmitted totally > Tom> out of band. > > By this do you mean without two-way communication? > Yes, I meant without two-way communication > If so, yes, both S/MIME and OpenPGP support this model. However I'll > point oun that it is not a requirement that syslog work that way; for > example RFC 3195 certainly has connections. > I'll look at those, thanks. I agree syslog could be, perhaps should be for meaningful security, but often at present is not, so I wanted to see what security was possible with just one way communication Tom Petch _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
