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Re: Reliable delete notifies
I can't, of course, say for sure, since I'm not in marketing, but:
I don't know if it's a problem of inadequate marketing, or with customers,
but customers don't seem to WANT any sort of Public keys. Whether it's
equivalent to pre-shared keys (in scaling) or not is apparently not the
issue (or maybe they aren't being educated by those who know, i.e. sales and
marketing). I agree that using public keys and distributing them in the same
way as pre-shared keys (except for the fact that pre-shared keys can be
typed, whereas public-keys are not easily typed by hand) scales in the same
way (i.e. doesn't ;), but there's still the fact that customers seem to WANT
pre-shared keys.
Maybe simply getting rid of pre-shared key authentication will help customer
perception here...
jan
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Angelos D. Keromytis wrote:
>
> In message <200010091255.IAA16481@granger.mail.mindspring.net>, "Thomas Porter,
> Ph.D." writes:
> >
> >I'm not sure that it matters much here, but we need IPSec solutions, and
> >are using
> >them now. Without the ability to use preshared keys, we would not have
> >been able
> >to hack out the solutions we currently have in a production environment..
>
> "hack" and "production environment" are very incompatible terms.
>
> There's no reason why you can't use public keys and certificates; they
> have a higher initial setup overhead, but that more than pays off over
> time in management ease.
> -Angelos
>
>
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Cisco Systems, San Jose (408) 527-0847
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