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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno plug-in security
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:30:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <021601c100eb$2541fa40$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01ac01c100e8$905e5b00$6401a8c0@freeze2k>

> You've got lots of security experience

so i am told.

but it's always a trade-off -- what you want to protect and how much you're prepared
to spend/invest to protect it.  every situation is different.  it even comes down to how
long the information is valid for.

guess the base level premise is:

    - you don't want to get ripped off [authentication]
    - they don't want to get ripped off [authentication]
    - the transaction has to happen in such a way -- ahh, non-repudiation is the word

[my english/french is in a bit of a weird state after the london trip, but it's pretty
much like that most of the time now]

anyway, you can break it down to two rules:

    - what have you got to protect
    - how much are you prepared to spend

and those two can be managed in interesting ways.




  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-29 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-19 17:12 anothy
2001-06-29 21:57 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-29 22:12   ` Matt
2001-06-29 22:30     ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-06-29 22:48       ` Matt
2001-06-29 23:22         ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-30  4:55 David Gordon Hogan
2001-06-20 13:57 anothy
2001-06-20 12:01 Anssi Porttikivi
2001-06-20 12:08 ` Matt
2001-06-19 18:30 erik quanstrom
2001-06-19 14:02 Anssi Porttikivi
2001-06-18 15:32 anothy
2001-06-18 14:53 Anssi Porttikivi
2001-06-15 12:26 rog
2001-06-15 11:47 Anssi Porttikivi
2001-06-17 15:08 ` Matt
2001-06-19 10:44 ` Rome Huang
2001-06-21 16:46 ` Rome Huang

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