[65796] in Cypherpunks
Re: XPA_nix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Sep 18 12:44:04 1996
To: "<pstira@escape.com>" <pstira@escape.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:33:09 EDT."
<Pine.BSI.3.91.960917213231.5280C-100000@escape.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:22:10 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"<pstira@escape.com>" writes:
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, John Young wrote:
>
> > Cheswick opines,"This is the first major attack of a kind that I believe to
> > be the final Internet security problem."
>
> Harrumph. We should only BE so lucky.
I don't remember if Ches was quoted correctly, but its more or less
true -- we know how to deal with most classes of major problems, but
denial of service is still a major question mark. I suspect its the
last big frontier.
Perry
