Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 04:30:18 PDT From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Digital-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Digital@UCSD.Edu Precedence: List Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #356 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Thu, 27 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 356 Today's Topics: JNOS and KPC Data Engine? using passwords over packet Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Digital Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-digital". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Oct 94 21:57:00 GMT From: steve.diggs@totrbbs.atl.ga.us (Steve Diggs) Subject: JNOS and KPC Data Engine? I just inherited a KPC "Data Engine" TNC, complete with 1200 and 9600 modems. This unit will be placed into service as part of the East Atlanta LAN. Seems I've heard that there is an PROM build of JNOS that can be loaded into this TNC. Anyone got any experience with this approach? Thanks, Steve Diggs East Atlanta LAN <<<>>> ---- Top Of The Rock BBS - Lilburn, GA SYSOP: Steve Diggs UUCP: totrbbs.atl.ga.us Snailmail: 4181 Wash Lee Ct. Phone: +1 404 921 8687 Lilburn, GA 30247-7407 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 09:49:58 EDT From: rapp@lmr.mv.com (Larry Rappaport) Subject: using passwords over packet CASSIDY@saturn.rowan.edu (Kyle Cassidy) writes: > i'm considering setting up a packet/internet gateway at my site, but i'm > concerned by the apparant lack of security. (i.e. if a user wants to read his > mail over the airwaves where anybody is listening, i don't have a problem wit > that, but i don't want anybody who is listening to then be able to log on as > that user....) what i would like to know is: > > 1) is there a way to use non-echoed passwords over packet? You could use the same system that is used in X1J and other nodes which have a sysop command. Basically there is a LONG string entered as a password in the software, which is also known by the user. When the user logs on, the bbs would send a random series of numbers - say five. The user sends back the characters pointed to by those numbers. If you change the password regularly, it should provide sufficient security. > and > > 2) is it legal? > > does using a non-reflected password violate the FCC rule against sending code > messages? my feeling is that it is, but closed repeaters are allowed to use > "secret codes" which are similar in many ways to passwords. IANAL (thank God!); I don't know. However, this is what is being used on TheNet, X1J and other systems right now, so it probably is legal. 73, Larry W1HJF -- Larry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- L. M. Rappaport & Associates, Inc. rapp@lmr.mv.com voice +1 603 237 8400 Colebrook, NH 03576-0158 CIS 72427,2567 fax +1 603 237 8430 ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #356 ******************************