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Re: "Internet Cryptography" Special Session at NISSC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Tue Sep 15 17:37:57 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:10:11 -0500
To: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
In-Reply-To: <35FD96C8.C0E3EC53@acm.org>
At 03:20 PM 9/14/98 -0700, Jim Gillogly wrote:
>Will this presentation be describing Secure Computing's IETF draft that
>proposes to put "key recovery" extensions into IPsec, the draft Internet
>IP-level security standard? This is draft-rfced-exp-markham-00.txt, for
>you viewers at home, and it's certainly the first thing <I> think of
>when I see "Secure Computing" and "Internet Cryptography" in the same
>paragraph.
Nope. My focus is entirely on properties of real, off the shelf products
that people can actually use. Tom Markham's draft is only a proposal, not
something that is in real products.
Personally I doubt we have enough operational experience with IP encryption
to make IKE and friends really strong as it is. Key recovery only makes a
very hard problem even harder. But Tom wants to take a swing at it.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com
