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Subject: Safety measures for firewall-local tools storage?
From: James Youngman <100647 . 453 @ compuserve . com>
Date: 17 Jan 96 12:47:26 EST
To: "'Firewalls List'" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>

I need (at least initially) tools installed that I can aceess from the firewall
machine.  Things like a compiler to compile TIS.  I could remove these when I
bring up the interface to the outside, but I wondered if anybody had an idea
about some measure that was still secure but didn't require this.

I thought of a filesystem mounted locally on an encrypted block device,
requiring a password from the console.  Any other suggestions?  Is this itself a
bad idea?

I rejected the idea of mounting them over NFS from a machine inside the
Firewall, believing this to be still less secure.  Any nay-sayers?

James.



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