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Subject: Re: Vendor Lines
From: Michael Richardson <mcr @ milkyway . com>
Organization: Milkyway Networks Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 16:08:51 -0400
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <9506052155 . AA08064 @ beretta . pencom . com>
Newsgroups: milkyway.mail.firewalls

In article <9506052155 .
 AA08064 @
 beretta .
 pencom .
 com> you write:
>end-to-end encryption.  It appears that one feature that distinguishes this  
>private network from the end-to-end encryption products is that it doesn't  
>depend on the performance problems of public Internet providers.

  You mean, the fact that if you can only encrypt at 300Kb/s, and you
have only a T1, then the bottleneck is the pipe, not the encryption
engine?

>network security was a reference to the fact that since this private used  
>static routing and was therefore more secure than the public Internet.  In  

  That is, until they decide that having their entire operations go
down with one errant backhoe operator... 

>If anyone on the list has more insight into this I would like to hear it.

  Like others, I think you want to limit your vulnerability to
organizations that you do not have administrative control over. 



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