Re: Sliding/Shifting/Morphing firewalls

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

> groups of uberlusers who possess diagnostic skills roughly on a par
> with a troop of mildly concussed tarsiers.  ...

May I express my admiration, and ask for permission to use this neat
turn of phrase?  ;-)  ;-)  ;-)

> In terms of bandwidth, the best method would probably be to use a
> PRNG with a reasonably long period.  Set the seed during the
> initial setup of the constituent firewalls in the RAIFsets, and
> then exchange a new seed at some pre-defined interval (some wee bit
> less than your PRNG's period).

And have somebody sabotage one of the upstream time servers, or perhaps
your tarsier-equivalents are maintaining it, and the two lose sync
during that time period and can no longer communicate.  (Happened
here - tarsiers.)

Just to be reasonably paranoid - a virtue in this field, eh?

;-)

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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