From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 11:18:27 MDT
In a message dated 5/1/2002 11:11:15 AM Mountain Standard Time,
James Rogers writes:
Which is all the more reason to use encryption on your own networks,
rather than only using it when you connect to remote sites. You rarely
know if your own hardware is actually "friendly".
-James Rogers
Using Encryption in a local area network, or in a locally controlled wide area
network, when your own hardware has been "Compromised" is like locking the barn
door after the horse left.
Dontcha think those sophisticated "planters" of sniffer stuff might figure out
the encryption patterns within it's own box ?
Been doing this stuff since 1964 (USAF beginnings); worked at TYMSHARE/TYMNET
in the 70's where we invented all the PIECES for the Internet, linking our own
hundreds of host computers to the DARPANET and ARPANET and other neat-o spook
networks with 22,000 simultaneous users online in 1973 to 325 different hosts
machines on multiple continents in an environment pre-PC, pre-Novell,
pre-Minicomputer, pre-FloppyDisk ! First Trans-Atlantic Sattelite
Circuit in a Commercial Network - 3.5 seconds up and down to Europe, then 3.5
seconds echo time for full duplex. . .
By the way, just to confirm what everyone knows, Al Gore wasn't there either
- I was in the room when the "Internet" type Network Supervisor, Master User
Directories, Local Hsot User Directories, and other major components of the
Internet were first used. . . ;-)
Keith Rohring, SGT, USAF, SEA at NKP, 1966
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