From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 31 14:57:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [198.92.199.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35A537B405 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f7VLv9r77616; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:57:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7VLv8x77609; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:57:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.wlcg.com: rsimmons owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:57:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Simmons To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Eric Anderson , Not Going to Tell You , Subject: Re: Possible New Security Tool For FreeBSD, Need Your Help. In-Reply-To: <20010831165306.T81307@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: <20010831175635.D50234-100000@mail.wlcg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Oops, I forgot the ;) Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Rob Simmons [010831 16:51] wrote: > > Why not require the incoming packets to be spoofed from a preordained set > > of IP addresses to obfuscate it even more. > > Obfuscation isn't security, it is the illusion of it. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7kAg0v8Bofna59hYRA2epAJ4wE0L0mWjjT/ntJ5atFgb/Fd5s6wCeOhbt cwQL3P5GbJLb1+HvpMNv5F0= =Xyd5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message