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Re: MS NetMeeting sevurity issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Oct 24 21:11:08 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: mckenney@smiley.mitre.org (Brian W. McKenney)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:17:36 -0500 (EST)
Cc: forest@aztec.co.za, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <v01510101ae94d3101a72@[128.29.140.130]> from "Brian W. McKenney" at Oct 24, 96 08:28:09 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
What IPsec stack are you using for your Windows machines, and what key
management does it have?
Adam
Brian W. McKenney wrote:
| >Can someone point out any major security issues that pertain to the use of
| >MS NetMeeting as a corporate conference tool. Can it be regarded as a
| >reasonably 'safe' meeting place?
| We are examining NetMeeting and other collaborative applications in
| conjunction with IP-level encryption (IPSEC), desktop-to-desktop. Hence,
| one could initiate NetMeeting sessions over an untrusted network and be
| protected by the security services (authentication, integrity checking,
| data privacy) provided by IPSEC. This is transparent to the NetMeeting
| user. The use of IPSEC does not secure NetMeeting but it does enable users
| to collaborate over secured channels.
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