[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00AEA87F.DE1AF78A at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <ltscu4$1le$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2014-08-30, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> DECNET offers some neat stuff and security.
>>>
>>
>>DECnet most certainly does _not_ offer security - it's an unencrypted
>>data stream.
> 
> Just like TCP/IP.

Nobody said it was.  Encryption is provided at a higher layer, where
it belongs.  There is no reason why the same can't be done with DECNET.
As a matter of fact, even though I have never looked at it and have no 
intention to, I can think of no technical reason why a version of SSL
could not be done using DECNET to provide the lower levels of the protocol.

bill
 

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