Subject: Re: IPSEC and user vs machine authentication
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/15/2005 19:25:28
In message <18429.1124135452@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>, Michael Richards
on writes:
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>>>>>> "Steven" == Steven M Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> Jason> Has that effort died? I attended a few informal discussions
> Jason> about this topic when it was first being discussed, but was
> Jason> not able to stay involved and have not heard much about it
> Jason> since, until you mentioned it now.
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> >> I'm still working on it, but I can't write a "standard" in
> >> isolation. I wrote code for Openswan to prototype the first part
> >> [query] (and we even demonstrated it at a BlackHat conference).
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> >> I'm still interesting in continuing on this.
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> Steven> As am I. I tried hard to get the IPsec WG interested in the
> Steven> question, way back when, but with little success.
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> Do you perhaps have students who might want to get involved?
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No, not yet.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb