firewall-wizards Digest, Vol 49, Issue 9

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: a cutting-edge open-source network security project
(Darren Reed)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:49:33 -0700
From: Darren Reed <darren.reed@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] a cutting-edge open-source network security
project
To: firewall-wizards@listserv.cybertrust.com
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On 2/05/10 03:48 PM, travis+ml-firewalls@subspacefield.org wrote:
> Quoting:
> http://www.subspacefield.org/security/dfd/
>
...

How do you authenticate connections to the dfd daemon?

If all I need is netcat (as per the example in your web
page above), then that doesn't speak too highly of the
security of the daemon itself.

Are you effectively giving all users that can connect
to it root level privilege on the firewall?

Darren

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