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Matt Blaze (mab@crypto.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:26:59 -0500
Perry writes:
>
> > Or consider a packet router, these are then much too slow.
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> Routers are not usually used as endpoints for encryption.
>
> Except in the addled minds of certain people, that is.
>
> Perry
I don't know what your second comment refers to, so I assume I'm missing
some context here, but there certainly are configurations for which it
*does* make sense to use a router as a cryptographic endpoint. Simple
IPSEC-based VPNs come to mind as an obvious example.
Am I parsing your statement wrong? I'd agree that typical routers inside
networks aren't (and shouldn't be) encryption endpoints for the traffic that
passes through them, but routers at the edges of trust boundaries are a
different story.
-matt
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:27