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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:35:33 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matt White <mwhite@cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPTP and FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <68859.914787333@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:26:49 EST." <4235743047.914768809@FRAUGHT.NET.CMU.EDU> 

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>Since we don't consider our local wire to be secure in any way shape or
>form, we encrypt all sensitive traffic in the application.  IMO, this is
>the only sane way to do things.

We used to have a war-chant we used against the OSI people, it went 
something like:
	"Anything but end-to-end ACKs is a waste of time"

I pressume that it would be equally valid if you did a:

s/ACKs/encryption/

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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