[Full-disclosure] plz suggest security for DLL functions

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Jul 1 21:06:03 BST 2005


On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:14:06 EDT, Michael Holstein said:
> >Give them a DLL that just tosses an RPC call to a secured server that you
> >manage.
> 
> Riiiight. "Secure" something by putting it on a Windows machine with RPC 
> exposed to the Internet.

Who said anything about Windows?  The concept of a remote procedure call is
much older than Microsoft, and Sun had RPC to support NFS while Windows was
still thinking about how to implement TCP....
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