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- Date: 29 JUL 92 20:55:39 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: RFC931 support?
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <2380582529JUL92205539@TGV.COM>
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- > Some people (from other sites even) have been asking about support
- > for RFC931, which provides for the authentication of a connection between
- > two systems. For example, it would allow you to find out who that person
- > is that has a telnet connection open to your system from across the
- > country.
-
- > Are there any plans to support this in Multinet?
-
- Absolutely none. RFC931 is NOT an authentication protocol, it is
- a protocol which allows a user on a machine to claim that a particular
- connection is owned by a particular user. It doesn't provide any
- additional security, and a substantial false sense of security.
-
- We'd be happy to implement a protocol which did what RFC931 does
- if someone could point out some value to it (other than security
- through obscurity), and only if it weren't titled "Authentication
- Server".
-
- Ken
-