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Re: Sidewinder G2


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:50:13 -0500

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:26:36 EST, David Maynor said:

I think that may be a bad example as that talks about crypto challenges
as oppsoed to operational security products. There is a big diffrence in
cryptanalysis and bug hunting in firewalls.

"Testing can prove the presence of flaws, but not their absence" -- Dijkstra.

The same exact logic of why a crypto challenge doesn't prove anything
applies to a firewall challenge as well.

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