Re: NFS exporting

Perry E. Metzger (perry@snark.imsi.com)
Thu, 14 Apr 1994 13:34:13 -0400

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smb@research.att.com says:
> 	  A while back I saw some discussion about NFS using tcp instead of
> 	  udp. Would this make things any more secure?
> 
> Yes, considerably; it's much harder (though by no means impossible)
> to butt in to the middle of a TCP session.

I'll note that that Steve is pointing out that TCP makes spoofing
harder -- it does nothing about stealing file handles (as I'm certain
he knows.)

Perry

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