On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:30:48PM -0700, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Rick Kelly (rmk@toad.rmkhome.com):
> > jeffrey@jeffreyf.net said:
> > 
> > >I don't agree. Besides, the programs are available to anyone who needs
> > >them as a package. 
> > 
> > I guess you've never worked on any projects that were COMPLETELY firewalled
> > away from the internet or not connected at all.
> 
> If it's two system on a LAN with nothing else attached,
> no harm in securing the connections.  Possible harm in
> not securing them.

Horsepuckey.  Go tell everyone who runs enormous compute clusters that
there is "no harm" in "securing" the connections on their internal
interconnect networks.  I hope your eardrums don't burst from the thunderous
outburst of laughter.

Encryption isn't free.  It loads the CPU and, worse in some cases, increases
latency.  Perhaps you don't happen to have or use a computer system where
that would matter, but it's the height of arrogance to pretend that nobody
else does.

Thor