1996-09-18 - Re: XPA_nix

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: “<pstira@escape.com>
Message Hash: d9ea761f017d5ef655170f91105a5c3b4137c3f0d9dc715433bb9341b7e62d8d
Message ID: <199609181622.MAA14053@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960917213231.5280C-100000@escape.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-09-18 22:44:01 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:44:01 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:44:01 +0800
To: "<pstira@escape.com>
Subject: Re: XPA_nix
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960917213231.5280C-100000@escape.com>
Message-ID: <199609181622.MAA14053@jekyll.piermont.com>
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"<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

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• 1996-09-12 (Fri, 13 Sep 1996 04:50:07 +0800) - XPA_nix - jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
  • 1996-09-12 (Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:24:31 +0800) - Re: Panix attack - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
    • 1996-09-12 (Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:12:29 +0800) - Re: Panix attack - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
  • 1996-09-18 (Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:27:22 +0800) - Re: XPA_nix - ”<pstira@escape.com>” <pstira@escape.com>
    • 1996-09-18 (Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:44:01 +0800) - Re: XPA_nix - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>