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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Terminology for firewalls (was Re: Firewall usage)
- Message-ID: <3146@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 00:38:39 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.045748.11266@decuac.dec.com> <1992Jul26.100825.13071@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul26.211639.29453@decuac.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Jul26.211639.29453@decuac.dec.com>,
- mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum) writes:
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-
- >Trusted application gateway - a software gateway for a given application,
- > such as a telnet "forwarder", or relay. Sendmail is a trusted
- > (or at least some versions) application gateway.
-
- The other terms were OK, but the term "trusted" usually refers to a
- component believed not to compromise a multilevel security policy
- (e.g. Bell-Lapadula). The overloading of the meaning that the above
- proposes is not helpful because it tends to confuse terms used in the
- same community.
-
- I would suggest just using "application gateway" instead.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-