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Subject: Re: Pentagon displays due respect for hackers
From: Chris Eastman <chris @ cwi . net>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:17:46 -0500
To: Sick Puppy <sikpuppy @ maestro . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . SUN . 3 . 91 . 960227081513 . 21245A-100000 @ maestro . com>

Several attacks could be used on a triple firewalling system depending on 
the routing configuration - loose source routing, ip fragmentation 
attacks, etc.


On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Sick Puppy wrote:

> The kind of triple firewall described by Brent Chapman in his seminars is 
> highly resistant to attack.  I have never been able to break through one 
> and neither has anyone I know, despite the fact that we have good tools.
> 
> However, in a report called "Strategic Assessment: The Internet", dated 
> 17 July 1995 and prepared by Mr. Charles Swett, Room 2B525, the Pentagon,
> there is a statement: "It has recently been found that even a triple 
> firewall architecture has been successfully penetrated by hackers."
> 
> Neat.  If you know what the components of that firewall were or which 
> techniques were successful, please be kind and throw a bone to the Dawg 
> by e-mail.  I will not post or forward your e-mail, I swear, on Lassie's 
> honor.
> 
>                                     Sick Puppy, the Cat_Eating_Dawg
>                                     Photonic & Tachyonic Systems Engineer
>                                     of the Stealth Starship Dark Matter
> 
>  -=:( Chained, whipped, beaten and severely abused in Katherine's Dungeon ):=-
>          -=:(  How could anything that feels so good be so wrong ):=-
> 
> 


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