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Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Sun Aug 15 22:56:21 1999
From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: "Henry Spencer" <henry@spsystems.net>, "Derek Atkins" <warlord@mit.edu>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>, <linux-ipsec@clinet.fi>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:50:34 +0800
----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>; <linux-ipsec@clinet.fi>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random
[...]
> > and also they are not running in Intel hardware with a Linux OS...
>
> Speak for yourself. Mine are. I think you'd be surprised at how common
> this has become, in applications which are not severely pressed for
> performance. The sort of PC that people are discarding, in favor of
> faster and more modern ones, can route/firewall/security-gateway a T1
> quite well. Anything much faster than that probably does need custom
> hardware... this year.
Trere are also commercial products implementing encrypting firewalls on top
of a Linux kernel. The vendor of one of them, Watchguard Technologies, has
gone public one month ago (http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=WGRD&d=3m).
Enzo
