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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: sparky!uunet!sdl!tal From: tlimonce@drew.drew.edu (Tom Limoncelli) Subject: Re: Secure netnews Message-ID: <f8@drew.drew.edu> Summary: Oh nothing important. I just have this Perl script that I use to generate this stream of posts whenever someone posts the silly suggestion that netnews could be made secure. Keywords: silly automated Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Organization: Drew University - Alumni References: <f7@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f6@pilot.njin.net> <f5@drew.drew.edu> <f4@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f3@pilot.njin.net> <f2@drew.drew.edu> <f1@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <9208182108.AA09132@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:15:18 GMT Lines: 22 In <f7@Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > At that time, someone will suggest that netnews be reimplemented > from the ground up with security and authenticity as prime > concerns. When someone posts that this will slow the system down to a halt, 2-3 posts will appear claiming that the speed will be worth it. Claims such as "if netnews isn't secure, it just doesn't have a future" will be made. Actually, I think Kent already said that. Tom -- There is nothing wrong with talking to yourself... I met an interesting person that way! -- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play) "Oh! I thought it was one of those useless demos of everything that a GUI builder could do." -Anonymous person watching demo of Solaris 2.0's graphical tool for managing NIS+