Re: Sliding/Shifting/Morphing firewalls

Joseph S D Yao (jsdycospo.osis.gov)
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:36:33 -0500 (EST)

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> groups of uberlusers who possess diagnostic skills roughly on a par
> with a troop of mildly concussed tarsiers. ...

May I express my admiration, and ask for permission to use this neat
turn of phrase? ;-) ;-) ;-)

> In terms of bandwidth, the best method would probably be to use a
> PRNG with a reasonably long period. Set the seed during the
> initial setup of the constituent firewalls in the RAIFsets, and
> then exchange a new seed at some pre-defined interval (some wee bit
> less than your PRNG's period).

And have somebody sabotage one of the upstream time servers, or perhaps
your tarsier-equivalents are maintaining it, and the two lose sync
during that time period and can no longer communicate. (Happened
here - tarsiers.)

Just to be reasonably paranoid - a virtue in this field, eh?

;-)

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