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Re: [perpass] "Guide to intranet protection"?

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 28 November 2013 05:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] "Guide to intranet protection"?
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On 11/27/2013 6:12 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>>       I'm assuming that providing meaningful protection takes a statement
>> >beyond "encrypt all your links".  Perhaps it doesn't, but I thought I'd
>> >ask...
> I'd say that'd be a fine thing if we could get someone who'd
> done that job to help write it.


So let's move to the meta-question:  what's the benefit that such 
experts (or their organizations) will accrue from participating?

One possible point is that intra-network security probably gets better, 
the more neighbors there are with equally good security.  Fewer sources 
of badness, and all that...

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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