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Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:48:41 -0400
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 11:24:31PM +0200, Kevin Steves wrote: | On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus J. Ranum wrote: |: 2 years ago |: I offered a bounty of $2,000 for *PROOF* that there is a |: deliberate trapdoor in FW-1 -- nobody has ever come forward |: (though Adam Shostack tried to argue that some of the features |: of their secure remote management are so clueless as to |: constitute a backdoor) :) | | I remember the bounty, but I guess I missed Adam's arguments (in fact I | recall it being a thread stopper :). What kind of cluelessness are we | talking about? I suggested that the use of a 48 bit, unpublished cryptosystem was sufficiently backdoor-esque and provable that MJR should send me a check. It was done with tounge firmly planted in cheek (although I probably pushed hard for the money; its the principle of winning a challenge from Marcus, more than a belief that it was a backdoor. :) Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
Current thread:
- FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Jim Hebert (Sep 15)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Chris Brenton (Sep 17)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Calvin Ng (Sep 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Jason L. Snowden (Sep 22)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 23)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Henry Hertz Hobbit (Sep 24)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Darren Reed (Sep 24)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Joseph S. D. Yao (Sep 24)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Adam Shostack (Sep 25)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 23)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Kevin Steves (Sep 29)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Adam Shostack (Sep 29)
- Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Marcus J. Ranum (Sep 29)
- BorderManager, was Re: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX Kjell Wooding (Sep 24)