Cryptosmith

In honor of the electoral season, I’m sharing an old photograph. The occasion was a visit by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to Secure Computing in June, 1999. We discussed possible revisions to cryptographic export controls, and he posed for photos, holding a copy of Internet Cryptography, which was ‘recently published’ back then.

I don’t want to turn this into a political blog - this posting simply reports on the visit. Continue Reading »

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I wrote the following message as part of a discussion on the old Firewalls mailing list in 1996. The message was part of a discussion on the use of MLS technology to protect Internet servers from attack. The basic concepts still apply in some ways, though the threats have evolved in many other ways. Continue Reading »

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