17 Jun
2008
17 Jun
'08
2:28 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:32:15 -0500 (CDT) Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
In one organization red was for the sensitive private network, and in another red meant "danger Will Robinson", public unsafe network. In yet another red was for grounded power.
Right. The universal convention in NSA-type crypto gear is red==cleartext, black==ciphertext. Designs have to provide proper "red/black separation". But when Bill Cheswick and I put in the Bell Labs firewall in the early 1990s, we used red cables for the dangerous outside net. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb