[Info-vax] DECnet bashing

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Sun Aug 9 21:43:07 EDT 2020


On 2020-08-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> Some mitigation is possible.
>
> But it i sort of a workaround.
>
> Using an application to application encryption using some
> standard TCP/IP based protocol is the more straight forward
> solution.
>

There's also the risk of an attack against the DECnet stack itself
to consider when deciding whether to stop using DECnet itself and
then making sure you actually disable it, not just stop using it.

Simon.

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