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Re: An interesting "new" computer security problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Thu Sep 30 11:42:51 2004
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:38:51 -0700
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>,
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
From: David Honig <dahonig@cox.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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At 12:58 PM 9/27/04 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>At 11:03 PM 9/24/2004, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>>A few days ago I was chatting with some people working on a government IT
>>project who had a rather complex security problem that they needed help
with.
>>They have a large number of users with Windows dumb terminals (think Xterms
>>but for Windows) connected to a central ASP server, which runs various
>>mutually untrusted apps from different vendors. Their problem was that they
>>needed a means of securing the individual apps from each other.
>>
>>I told them that they were in luck, and this exact problem had already been
>>addressed before. I'd drop off the detailed technical specs for the
solution
>>when I next saw them, they could recognise it by its bright orange cover.
Put each app on a separate machine, and don't put any networking
equiptment in the machines. Simple.
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