IP: The Absent, secure remote access system.

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:14:26 -0500
>>From: Avi Rubin <rubin@research.att.com>
>>Organization: AT&T Labs - Research
>>X-Accept-Language: en
>>To: "Bernard A. Galler" <galler@umich.edu>
>>Subject: Hi
>>Status:
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>>Could post the following to Interesting People?
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>>Thanks,
>>Avi
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>>We are pleased to announce the public release of the Absent, secure
>>remote access system.
>>
>>A description, the paper, and the code are available at
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>>  http://www.research.att.com/projects/absent
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>>Absent is a system for secure remote access to the internal web from
>>outside. It addresses the problem of secure remote access to a site's
>>internal web server from outside the firewall. The goal is to give
>>authorized users access to sensitive information, while protecting the
>>information from others. We implemented our solution using a one-time
>>password scheme for
>>client authentication and SSL for confidentiality. Our main design
>>considerations were security, performance, ease of use,  vailability,
>>and scale. We were further constrained by the desire to leave our
>>firewall and local infrastructure unchanged.
>>
>>Christian Gilmore, Dave Kormann, Avi Rubin
>>AT&T Labs - Research
>
>Bernard A. Galler
>E-mail:  galler@umich.edu
>Fax: 734-668-9998