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Subject: Re: Non-company Access ??
From: giff @ congress . East . Sun . COM (Wayne Gifford - Internet Commerce Group)
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:47:53 -0500 (EST)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <H0000251004c51af @ MHS> from "firewalls-owner @ GreatCircle . COM" at Feb 8, 96 05:27:26 pm

> 
> In a few words .. can anyone tell me how your companies handle requests
> for third party access to your networks ?
> 
> I get frequent requests to provide PPP or SLIP access to contractors,
> vendors, resellers, distributors, etc. for the purpose of accessing all
> sorts of applications and data bases.  I also get requests to "open a
> hole in the firewall" to allow these folks to access our facilities.
> 

Look into SKIP (Simple Key management for Internet Protocols, a draft 
Internet spec for doing just this sort of thing.


Look at http://skip.incog.com for source and a Solaris implementation


giff


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