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Re: [Syslog] syslog/tls policies and use cases

"Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com> Wed, 14 May 2008 16:32 UTC

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From: Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com>
To: David Harrington <ietfdbh@comcast.net>, Pasi.Eronen@nokia.com, clonvick@cisco.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslog-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:syslog-bounces@ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of David Harrington
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:07 PM
> To: Pasi.Eronen@nokia.com; clonvick@cisco.com
> Cc: syslog@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Syslog] syslog/tls policies and use cases
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So I go buy a Linksys or Netgear router or other consumer gear.
> I slip the CD into the drive and run software to install the
> management GUI on my PC.
> That software is used to perform an initial configuration of the
> device, such as enabling DHCP, setting WEP keys, and so on.
> This same software can presumably generate a key and "copy the
> fingerprint" to the device, right?
> Clueless operator needs not be involved. The Internet is secure.
> 
> right?

Mostly ;) What the clueless user still needs to do is

1) copy the server's fingerprint to the client
2) configure the server to accept the client's fingerprint

Rainer
> 
> David Harrington
> dbharrington@comcast.net
> ietfdbh@comcast.net
> dharrington@huawei.com
> 
> 
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