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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:08:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        mi@aldan.algebra.com, kris@obsecurity.org, brian@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ccp.c ccp.h command.c deflate.c fsm.c fsm.h ip.c mppe.c ppp.8 pred.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010620090756.16449H-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200106182236.f5IMaKh18305@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Brian Somers wrote:

> > Security failures can happen in at least two components here: (1) protocol
> > design, and (2) implementation of the protocol.  Microsoft was clearly
> > involved in step (1), and probably heavily influenced step (2) by virtue
> > of their own implementation choices.  In the past, Microsoft has
> > demonstrated their ability to fail in both categories (1) and (2).  That
> > said, both categories of failures are widespread: the SSH protocol has had
> > protocol design failures, and SSH implementations have likewise had
> > implementation errors.
> 
> You're making it all sound terribly bleak... :)

Yeah, being a security person is depressing :-(.

On the other hand, we have endless sources of employment :-).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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