IP: The Absent, secure remote access system.

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:14:26 -0500
> > From: Avi Rubin <rubin () research att com>
> > Organization: AT&T Labs - Research
> > X-Accept-Language: en
> > To: "Bernard A. Galler" <galler () umich edu>
> > Subject: Hi
> > Status:
> >
> > Could post the following to Interesting People?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Avi
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> >
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the public release of the Absent, secure
> > remote access system.
> >
> > A description, the paper, and the code are available at
> >
> >  http://www.research.att.com/projects/absent
> >
> > Absent is a system for secure remote access to the internal web from
> > outside. It addresses the problem of secure remote access to a site's
> > internal web server from outside the firewall. The goal is to give
> > authorized users access to sensitive information, while protecting the
> > information from others. We implemented our solution using a one-time
> > password scheme for
> > client authentication and SSL for confidentiality. Our main design
> > considerations were security, performance, ease of use,  vailability,
> > and scale. We were further constrained by the desire to leave our
> > firewall and local infrastructure unchanged.
> >
> > Christian Gilmore, Dave Kormann, Avi Rubin
> > AT&T Labs - Research
>
> Bernard A. Galler
> E-mail:  galler () umich edu
> Fax: 734-668-9998