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Re: Your counsel on defeating DDOS Attacks
At 6:33 PM -0500 2/17/00, Steven M. Christey wrote:
>
>4) Often, security is not a corporate priority, which means that it is
>under-supported financially.
And administratively. If you can't enforce policy, it doesn't really exist.
>
>1) Encourage the widespread use of strong authentication. Encryption
>is mentioned in the proposal, but not authentication.
Only where appropriate. The encryption and key lookup involved slow
systems down, and can add to a DOS attack. Furthermore, there are
many places where strong authentication is not desireable because it
reduces privacy.
