[HECnet] discontinuance of VMS

[Gregg Levine]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
<jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:

El 06/06/2013, a les 22:05, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> va escriure:

Sadly HP never really listened to DoD security concerns and didn't upgrade V=
MS to address the items (like native PKI support) we had to move away from V=
MS since the vendor had no plans to fix.=20

Although PKI isn't particularly an OS issue.

Just as a sidenote, z/OS (to name a system government agencies usually love) does not have a "native PKI" either. It can be installed as a layered product, either from IBM (RACF) or from third parties (CA-TopSecret).




Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES

Hello!
Sadly yes. And the other problem is that the auditors who claim to be
responsible for security issues do not understand the roles of
mainframes, and of systems who run VMS. Or even native UNIX.
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This does not explain why there are four odd looking entities breaking
and entering into systems in two different places.
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