[funsec] Gartner: IPsec Dead by 2008

[Fergie]

Huh. That's news to me. :-)

I'd be curious to hear what others think about this...

Via TechWorld.

[snip]

The IPsec protocol that has served remote access so well for the last decade is now in its death throes, Gartner has prophesised.

In a new report, it predicted that by 2008, the use of IPsec will have been swept away by its younger technological rival, SSL, for much of the market. By that year, two-thirds of teleworking remote access employees - and 90 percent of casual access users - will have adopted SSL.

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More here:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5168

- ferg


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