NIST IPv6 document

Thu Jan 6 05:44:11 UTC 2011

On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Joe Greco wrote:

> If you don't understand the value of such an increase in magnitude,

I can count as well as you can, I assure you.

> I invite you to switch all your ssh keys to 56 bit.

The difference is that if someone compromises/brute-forces one of my ssh keys, he has something of value.  

OTOH, if he can find my host and send some packets to it, since I've done all the host OS/app/service BCPs, plus I'm enforcing policy via stateless ACLs in hardware-based routers/switches and tcpwrappers on my host, so what?  I could care less.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

			  -- Alan Kay