Relying on most hackers to be dumb enough to not be able to crack DECnet
may not be such a great idea in a production environment, but were not
talking industrial secrets here. I think we could be relatively casual
about security and be pretty safe.
This really sounds like a fun idea.
Regards,
Jeff
>>Using VMS you'd have mail and DEC Notes at least. Plus it's possible to
>>setup dialup access. The question is, how secure is DECnet over IP?
>Can
>>you send it via an encrypted link? I've not read up on it yet.
>Extremely secure if IP is done right. DECnet is good in itself. Doing
>it
>as wrapped decnet would be hard for outsiders to crack unless they knew
>it was DECNET inside. It's basically VPN. FYI, back in the old days
>(early 90s) DECNET was used to wrap appletalk and Novell so it could be
>run over wans (DECNET is routable).
>Allison
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