Firewalls: On Trusting Trust

Firewalls
(September 1995)

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Subject:	On Trusting Trust
From:	ris1!nmti . com!peter @ uuneo . neosoft . com
Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 95 15:27:19 -0400
To:	padgett @ tccslr . dnet . mmc . com (A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security)
Cc:	"firewalls @ greatcircle . com"@uvs1.dnet.mmc.com

> 3) Product has been reviewed (as in 1) by someone trusted.

> (3) being in the USA I would trust a review by the NSA and a very few others.

The "40 bit keys are all anyone needs" NSA? What's their incentive to
encourage good firewalls? The Clipper Chip people?

OK folks, imagine there was to be a firewall certification authority. Who
would you want them to be? Who do you trust?

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