Bringing authentication to network layer 3

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Vincent Deffontaines writes “Have you ever thought of how much efficiency your firewall would gain if it could incorporate per-user filtering? If IP filters could use userID as “just another” filtering criteria?

Any connexion passing through the filter could be associated its originating user, and this could even break the old, vague, insecure assumption “1 IP address = 1 user”.”

Link: nufw.org

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