On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:32:15 -0500 (CDT) Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In one organization red was for the sensitive private network, and in > another red meant "danger Will Robinson", public unsafe network. In > yet another red was for grounded power. > Right. The universal convention in NSA-type crypto gear is red==cleartext, black==ciphertext. Designs have to provide proper "red/black separation". But when Bill Cheswick and I put in the Bell Labs firewall in the early 1990s, we used red cables for the dangerous outside net. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb