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Subject: Re: NFS vs. FTP
From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg @ zen . quick . com . au>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:11:17 +1100
To: Adam Shostack <adam @ homeport . org>
Cc: spayne @ dsdc . dla . mil, firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 96 07:10:08 CDT." <199610281210 . HAA08581 @ homeport . org>

> Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> 
> | >	3. The reason I say bad for wide are mounts is IP_SPOOFING
> | 
> | Crypto is the best bet for this.  The next release of unfs (actually
> | I'll be changing the name to snfs as unfs is the name of a Linux
> | project) will be able to use SSL as its transport.
> 
> 	Is SSL appropriate for this?  If you go to TCP only, it might
> be ok (what about key changes?), but I would see using the IPSec
> algorithims as a better move possibly involving a lot less public key
> activity.

Yes SSL is appropriate - I was talking TCP only anyway.
Also you will be able to run it on any platform imediately.
I haven't been following IPv6 closely for some time, but I'd guess
that it (and esp. IPsec) are years away from general availability.


--sjg


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