new Poll: IPSEC support in HP TCPIP

[Richard W Hunt]

I cannot speak for other sites, but I work at a U.S. Dept. of Defense site where there is a requirement to use a Computer Access Card (a specifically programmed Smart Card) as part of your login. I went through huge hoops with the Attachmate techs before coming to the realization that deep down inside, our inability to communicate was because OpenSSH for OpenVMS is one format and the Windows workstation gets one of these Smart Cards in IPSEC format.

What would you get if you did more with IPSEC? How about no-password logins using the Computer Access Card as the starting point. You would be surprised how many sites want that. (No, maybe you wouldn't be surprised.) Attachmate s/w could extract the RSA key from the card, but its in the wrong format completely - IPSEC. So our OpenSSH won't take it. Drives me nuts because I am bound in regulation about how I can approach the problem. But even with something so simple as the ability to convert OpenSEC keys to IPSEC or vice versa, I could take that ball and run with it for miles!

[Richard J Maher]

Run Forest, Run!

[Ian Miller.]

I've closed the poll.

Results

If IPSEC support was available in HP TCPIP Services for OpenVMS

You would deploy it on a production server within a year 85.87% (79)

Be not interested because you already use another vendors IPSEC on OpenVMS 4.35% (4)

Have no interest in using IPSEC on OpenVMS 4.35% (4)

Don't know what IPSEC is 5.43% (5)

I will pass this on with the collected comments to HP.

[Richard J Maher]

That's funny, I just looked at the page and it says/said: -

If IPSEC support was available in HP TCPIP Services for OpenVMS
You would deploy it on a production server within a year 83.05% (98)
Be not interested because you already use another vendors IPSEC on OpenVMS 4.24% (5)
Have no interest in using IPSEC on OpenVMS 5.08% (6)
Don't know what IPSEC is 7.63% (9)

Maybe you have a cached page?

[Ian Miller.]

Could be :-(

I'm now seeing the figures you posted.

However the overall pattern is the same.