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Re: IPSEC == end of firewalls

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jan 24 02:29:01 1996

Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:26:18 -0800
To: perry@piermont.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com

>Bill Frantz writes:
>> At least maybe I can avoid Perry's wrath for an off topic post :-).
>
>Just for reference, the topic of firewalls and whether cryptographic
>tools render them obsolete is not off topic for cypherpunks. In fact,
>its one of the rare topics that is actually totally proper here...

Expressed that way, I must agree.  However, I think we also agree that
firewalls in general should be elsewhere.

Bill



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