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Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN?
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart () mfnx net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:41:03 -0800
No, but putting your car on a private road that you need to circumvent several roadblocks to reach IS a pretty good deterrent to its being in an accident.
I doubt the roadblocks are anything serious in most cases; if all you're doing is RFC1918 addressing, then source-routing on the attacker's side can probably make your box theirs in short order. Most people of this ilk I've encountered think so highly of RFC1918 addressing as a security measure that they blindly assume no other precautions are necessary. I would hope that no-one on this list would stoop to *that* level of stupidity. Presenting a "security by obscurity" argument is bad enough. Stephen
Current thread:
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN?, (continued)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Daniel L. Golding (Dec 29)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Andrew Brown (Dec 29)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Simon Lyall (Dec 29)
- RE: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Deron J. Ringen (Dec 29)
- RE: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? John Fraizer (Dec 29)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Geoffrey Zinderdine (Dec 29)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Bill Fumerola (Dec 30)
- RE: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Randy Bush (Dec 31)
- RE: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Derek J. Balling (Dec 31)
- RE: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Randy Bush (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Stephen Stuart (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? John Fraizer (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Bill Woodcock (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Randy Bush (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Mark Mentovai (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Randy Bush (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Andrew Brown (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? John Hawkinson (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Dana Hudes (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Stephen Stuart (Dec 31)
- Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN? Andrew Brown (Dec 31)