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List:       dns-security
Subject:    FWD:  Re: Edupage, 27 August 1998
From:       "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3 () torque ! pothole ! com>
Date:       1998-08-28 16:56:10
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Date:  Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:57:32 -0400
From:  Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject:  Re: Edupage, 27 August 1998

At 1:57 PM -0400 on 8/27/98, Edupage Editors wrote:

> DARPA LEADS FIGHT AGAINST DOMAIN-NAME HACKERS
> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $1.4
> million contract to Network Associates to develop a cryptographic
> authentication system for the Internet's domain-address system.  The new
> system will enable the Net's routing points to verify the origin of any
> given Web page, preventing hackers from corrupting Web page caches or
> rerouting domain traffic altogether.  It will not, however, prevent hackers
> from breaking into individual Web servers and changing pages.  "That's not
> part of this particular approach," says the director of Network Associates'
> TIS Labs.  The company is working with the Internet Software Consortium,
> which will distribute the security system to Unix vendors when it becomes
> commercially available.  Beta versions are expected to be ready in about six
> months, with a final product on the market in about 18 months.  (TechWeb 26
> Aug 98)

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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