[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation (was: Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:40:41 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:

> On 2024-01-09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 14:32:48 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> And again, what you are interested here in has been available for many
>>> years via Sector 7.
>>
>> I?m not sure they did a comprehensive enough job. For instance, I
>> remember the previous time this came up, reading between the lines in
>> one of their case studies, the original customer scenario mentioned
>> using DECnet, but that was missiong from the description of the
>> solution.
> 
> DECnet should not be in use in today's security world and a customer
> should have been forced away from using DECnet anyway due to external
> auditing and security standards.

Surely that’s their choice. I thought the point was to make the transition 
away from VMS as painless as possible. Others were trying to poke holes in 
my claims of minimal pain; now you are trying to add to the pain instead.

Nowadays, the whole Internet is built on the concept of running secure 
protocols over insecure channels. Those secure protocols can in turn be 
channels for older, insecure protocols--this is not rocket science.