From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jan 2 4:53:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86A714F34 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 04:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA25485; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:53:26 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:53:26 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Michael Robinson Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSH protocol 1.6 proposal Message-ID: <20000102125326.B24810@florence.pavilion.net> References: <200001020709.PAA00600@netrinsics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001020709.PAA00600@netrinsics.com> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:09:23PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > > A lot of very smart people worked long and hard on IPSEC. It's an open, > interoperable standard. It's simple to implement and understand. It is > (I've been led to understand) well-analyzed and theoretically robust. > It works. > > And, significantly, FreeBSD still doesn't have a documented, user-friendly, > fully-featured implementation. > That may be true, but work is progressing at a pace in 4.X to add this functionality for the 4.0 release. It won't be long now. On the other hand even with the completed I'm still not going to be able to connect to a FreeBSD box from a Windows box, for example, because one of them lacks the IPSEC code. Ssh has been, and will continue to be, a a great stop-gap solution. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message