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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:43:02 -0600
To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: MPD & MPPE LCP not converging
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At 10:38 PM 6/6/2002, Doug Barton wrote:

>> It's related to security because it involves situations in which encryption
>> is inserted into PPP at the CCP (compression) layer.
>
>Sorry, that's an application problem, not a security problem. 

I'm sorry, but I disagree. When security software fails to work,
it's a security problem.

--Brett


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