New MIT Consortium Promotes Kerberos
Oct 04, 2007The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has founded the Kerberos Consortium with the aim of enhancing the Kerberos authentication protocol to provide a universal authentication method on open networks.
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Aug 10, 2007Version 6.0 of the Bittorrent filesharing client will no longer be Open Source and it is currently available for Windows only.
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May 31, 2006Do you know enough to surf free of the liars and spies? We’ll show you how to stay ahead of the traps.
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Netfilter L7 Blocking protocols at Layer 7 with the L7 patch
Feb 28, 2006If you need a tool for filtering protocols that doesn’t depend on the port, try L7, an IPTables patch that operates through regular expressions.
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Oct 31, 2005Networks often require very accurate timekeeping. The Network Time Protocol provides the time with precision.
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