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[linux-security] Re: RE: Re: Checking remote servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shaun)
Wed May 27 03:43:05 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 17:07:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: Shaun <shaun@lexicom.ab.ca>
In-reply-to: <A7D6C3DC97E0D1118F9200805F9FE2DB26330D@raptor.gov.yk.ca>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
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There was a company up here that supplied on the fly data encryption and
compression via a modified router. It was called the "Warp" box. They
used 3des encryption, and I think a gzip(Lempel-Ziv LZ77) compression
algorithm. Though I think this company is being dissolved, it was quite a
nice feature for people with 56k links which would get their total
throughput boosted, and fairly secure.
> Another solution I know of is employed by a friend working for a bank in
> the US. They use encrypting modems, end to end. The client-side modem
> requires an inserted key card to activate. This may be overkill for the
> application, and then again, it may not. But it is a handy thing to
> know is out there.
Isn't this something like a SecureID type system?
Regards.
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