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Re: Edupage, 27 August 1998
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Aug 28 10:34:03 1998
In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19980827140054.0dd7abc4@mailer.packet.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:57:32 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 1:57 PM -0400 on 8/27/98, Edupage Editors wrote:
> DARPA LEADS FIGHT AGAINST DOMAIN-NAME HACKERS
> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $1.4
> million contract to Network Associates to develop a cryptographic
> authentication system for the Internet's domain-address system. The new
> system will enable the Net's routing points to verify the origin of any
> given Web page, preventing hackers from corrupting Web page caches or
> rerouting domain traffic altogether. It will not, however, prevent hackers
> from breaking into individual Web servers and changing pages. "That's not
> part of this particular approach," says the director of Network Associates'
> TIS Labs. The company is working with the Internet Software Consortium,
> which will distribute the security system to Unix vendors when it becomes
> commercially available. Beta versions are expected to be ready in about six
> months, with a final product on the market in about 18 months. (TechWeb 26
> Aug 98)
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Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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