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Re: German home banking (fromn RISKS)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Mazieres)
Wed Jan 24 19:36:33 1996

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 19:30:01 -0500
From: David Mazieres <dm@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
To: stevenw@best.com (Steven Weller)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: stevenw@best.com's message of Wed, 24 Jan 1996 07:19:41 -0800

Was the person in the basement eavesdroping or actuall performing a
man-in-the-middle attack?

Don't high speed modems transmit and receive on the same frequencies,
using echo cancelation to decode the receive signals?  Does that make
it impossible to eavesdrop on high-speed (i.e. V32bis) modems?

David


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