RE: Gartner: IPsec Dead by 2008

["William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>]

Perchance to dream...


William: Gartner Dead by 2008


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of John Levine
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:04 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Gartner: IPsec Dead by 2008

> I'd be curious to hear what others think about this...

It's typical Gartner.  If you hire them to look at your product, they will
find that it is a breakthrough that is certain to be a billion dollar market
within five years.  If you don't, or even worse your comptetitor hires them,
you're dead meat.

> The IPsec protocol that has served remote access so well for the last 
> decade is now in its death throes, Gartner has prophesised.

Since low level infrastructure tends to be non-proprietary, Gartner has an
excellent track record of being wrong all the time.

> In a new report, it predicted that by 2008, the use of IPsec will have 
> been swept away by its younger technological rival, SSL

Now I wonder if they know the difference between SSL and SSH.  IPsec and SSH
don't compete directly, but it sure is easy to set up tunnels to one's home
network with SSH.

R's,
John


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