On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Andy Watts wrote:
> Also the providing of source code for a firewall product is not necessarily
> a good thing and for the record the TIS toolkit source code is quite
> different to the code used in the full TIS Gauntlet firewall.
I never said it was. However, the source code for Gauntlet is also
available for inspection. If TIS can do this, why not everyone?
I rather liken it to encryption systems where the most secure and trusted
ones are the ones in which the algorthms are fully disclosed.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael @
memra .
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