Re: Opinions on VPN?

["Philip S Holt, Security Engineer / Network Engineer" <philipsholt () uswest net>]

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Litney, Tom wrote:

> VPN's have carved out a niche in the lower speed network
> links (up to about t3 speeds).

   For the majority of the offerings (Those both ICSA and thus IPSec compliant
{{Certified}} which tranlates to the fact they'll work with IPng -) this is
true.   IRE (Out of Maryland is the only vendor that I know of this is offering
on-chip speeds in the mid OC levels, and this will subsequentily open more
avenues and solutions for us all) is chaging all of this - and the cool thing
with IRE is that not only do they have one of the eleven products actually
certified with IPSec (See the current article and write-ups in the April '99
issue of Information Security, or visit there URL and start probing around:
www.infosecuritymag.com) there prodcuts are based on standards (Like X509 &
yadda, yadda, yadda many other standards for there product offerings), which is
certainly nice for a change.
   It would be nice to see ID Vendors go in the same direction as well.
"Standards versus propietary nonsense."
Philip.


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