[GTALUG] NAT [was Re: Linux hardening question]

[Russell]

On July 2, 2017 10:29:00 AM EDT, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>| From: James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
>| On 07/01/2017 05:38 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

<snip previous>

>And while listing currently lost causes, I really wish we'd gotten to
>Opportunistic Encryption.

Ok, this made me chuckle. 

One of the first questions I typically get when I get into a computer discussion with a non techie parent is, "what should my child learn as part of the basics"  I always said try a machine assembly language.

My answer these days is a one time pad.

>
>| Incidentally, I first heard about NAT when I saw a dial up NAT
>router,
>| at Computer Fest in 1996.
>
>I miss Computer Fests.
>
>| Also, at IBM, I had 5 static IPv4 addresses, 1 for my computer and 4
>for
>| testing in my work.  I similarly had 5 SNA addresses.  Back then, my
>| computer's address was 9.29.146.147.
>
>I got my /24 before I had a broadband connection.  I think that it was
>in the late 1980s when I was pondering what IP addresses to stick on
>my 2-node LAN.  I didn't want to use an RFC 1918 address (this was
>before RFC 1918 or even 1597).  So I naively asked for some IPs and got
>them.  It was many years before they were actually routed from the
>internet to my LAN.
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