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Re: [Design] Re: Wes Hardaker: opportunistic encryption deployment problems
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Stephen Kent wrote:
> ...unauthorized access to computing resources on organizational LANs.
> Encryption of lots of Internet traffic, without accompanying
> authentication and access control, does not address the latter concern.
And antiaircraft missiles aren't very effective against submarines, either!
Different solutions to different problems.
IPsec would not have encryption at all if passive wiretapping was not a
serious concern.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
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