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- From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd security enhancements are needed before using INTERNET!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.183548.20598@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <l74ebkINN1sd@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul27.173631.4223@gateway.novell.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:35:48 GMT
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- >>fact of the matter is that the precompiled password authentication codes
- >>present absolutely no risk to national security.
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- > The problem is the ability to distribute source. One of the base
- >intentions of 386BSD, from what I have seen, is to make everything freely
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- Aren't there keys that can be changed on a system by system basis? For
- some algorithms it could take a fast computer a long time to crack the
- codes even if it knew the algorithm...
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- Niko Schuessler
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