Re: How to Secure Windows? was How to Save the World

[Kevin <kkadow () gmail com>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:23:40 -0500, Rick Murphy <rmurphy () mitretek org> wrote:
> At least the initial intent was to allow that - it was OK for you to
> sell yourself as the support person for a company using FWTK; over time
> that became more and more restrictive.
> I don't think the current FWTK owners distribute it any longer, which I
> think is a good thing.
>         -Rick

Thanks to Bill Casti, the FireWall ToolKit is still out there
(http://www.fwtk.org/).  The original and patched distributions can
still be downloaded from NAIlabs, via:
     ftp://ftp.nailabs.com/pub/firewalls/toolkit/

History of TIS and FWTK is available here:
ttp://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/nailabs/research_projects/network_security/extended_secure.asp


I wouldn't recommend anybody to actually build a production firewall
on this code (the code is inefficient, and there are rumors of buffer
overflows), however FWTK would make a good learning tool for a class
on proxy firewall design and implementation.

As a Gauntlet customer who never did get access to the "Crystal Box"
source code, the open-source FWTK was a huge help in testing and
managing Gauntlet firewalls, as much of the code in commercial
Gauntlet was functionally identical to the code in the toolkit.

Kevin Kadow
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