On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Schlter, Olaf wrote:
> To support a proprietary UDP based application procotol through a
> firewall, unfortunately not suitable for proxying with udprelay or
> other application gateway solutions available on the market, we are
> seeking for a packet-filterung firewall with a user authentification
> component, i.e. packet filtering rules allowing use of the protocol
> should only be active after the firewall has verified the identity of
> the person using the host which wants to be connected to the
> application server inside the protected network. The primary concern
> of this mail is to gain knowledge about availability of a solution
> like the one described above. Discussions about the implications, pros
> and cons of such a design are welcome, but not as urgent needed as the
> market information.
>
Question; How do you plan on verifing the identity of a user? Even
those sites running identd can spoof identities...
Later,
Ron DuFresne
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