Secure Internal Communication
Anyone who has managed installations of distributed FireWall-1 4.1 or earlier knows what the fw putkey command is. Anyone who has managed a particularly complex FireWall-1 environment has done fw putkey numerous times, particularly when adding a new firewall—not just for the firewall you're adding but also for all the other firewalls in your installation because the authentication between the firewalls and the management station broke. I can't tell you how many customers I've had to help with putkey-related problems over the years. Even customers who knew what they were doing would get tripped up by the putkey process.
Aside from the technical issues of getting and keeping putkey-type authentication working, it was ...
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