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Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:09:54 -0700
Application layer firewalls have existed for at least 6 years.Make that 15....
I suspect that claiming to that they existed farther back than 1990 would require careful debate about the functionality.
Taking it at its most general: a boundary barrier service that mediated particular application exchanges between an "interior" Administrative Environment, versus the rest of the public network. One can reasonably argue than any such mediation has a security component to it.
Therefore one could argue that firewall functionality was around at least 25 years ago -- there were a number of email boundary gateway mediating services by then -- and very probably back to 1973. (I just know that some MIT type is going to claim pre-1970, given the generality of the definition I offered.)
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net
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