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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