[Info-vax] A few notes from VMS TUD days i Stockholm today.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

JF Mezei wrote:

> Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 
>> - IPsec comes during 2010.
> 
> Could this news possibly create a miracle and make Mr Maher happy for 30
> seconds ? :-)
> 
> 
>> - POP and IMAP services will get support for ACME.
> 
> By "ACME", you mean the now standard user authentication routines on VMS
> which do the intrusion detection and proper logging which both services
> lacked ?

External authorization.

> 
> Did they provide a time estimate for when this security "patch" would be
> delivered ?

It's not a security patch.

> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, could they release a version (8.4 as an example)
> that has support for yet-unreleased chip (Tukwila for example) ? I
> assume that HP has had samples to play with and test for a while now.
> 
> Just wondering if they couldn't just release 8.4 with the Tyuwila
> support already in it so that it can run out fo the box when Tukwila
> actually comes out ?  Or Is TRukwila still at a stage where many changes
> could still happen to how an OS interfaces to it ?

Couldn' care less. Seems as an non-issue (to the user-group).