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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:46:58 -0500
From:      Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Antisniffer measures (digest of posts)
Message-ID:  <20010106154658.Y898@naughty.monkey.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010106133125.17685E-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:41:54PM -0500
References:  <3A56ABF8.90C9F0D8@softweyr.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010106133125.17685E-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:

> However, the lack of a well-defined name->key binding mechanism
> presents a number of problems that must be resolved.  I know of
> ongoing work to integrate DNSsec and OpenSSH at NAI Labs and (I
> believe) ISI.

see http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~smang/sshproject.html

> End-to-end encryption is probably the answer to the problems seen by this
> user -- however, FreeBSD has relatively poor IPsec integration due to lack
> of IKE in the base system, making configuration and management of IPsec
> somewhat of a nightmare.

monkey-in-the-middle attacks are certainly possible against IPsec's
IKE as well, especially with the fervent push toward opportunistic
encryption (resulting in "opportunistic" exploits :-)

-d.

p.s. thank you for the nice summary, Robert. this is a busy list!

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