From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 3 3:31:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from internethelp.ru (wh.internethelp.ru [212.113.112.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B2537B407 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 03:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from IBMKA (ibmka.internethelp.ru. [192.168.0.6]) by internethelp.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA61995; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:30:22 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:29:10 +0400 From: "Nickolay A.Kritsky" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) Personal Reply-To: "Nickolay A.Kritsky" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <110320834936.20010903142910@internethelp.ru> To: "Carroll, D. (Danny)" Cc: "Alfred Perlstein" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Possible New Security Tool For FreeBSD, Need Your Help. In-reply-To: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC3115698@citsnl007.europe.intranet> References: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC3115698@citsnl007.europe.intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello D., Monday, September 03, 2001, 12:17:20 PM, you wrote: CDD> Yeah but Obfuscation PLUS good security does not hurt, in fact it helps. CDD> Just so long as you don't *rely* on it. Don't you think it is really _too_ complicated. While you have firewalls, open key logins, IP based verification. Just Keep It Simple. IMHO the more complicated it gets, the more chances you have, that in one day all this "security improvements" will play against you. ;------------------------------------------- ; NKritsky ; SysAdmin InternetHelp.Ru ; http://www.internethelp.ru ; mailto:nkritsky@internethelp.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message