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Re: [linux-security] Radius
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Thu Jul 25 15:05:09 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:49:20 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: "Alexander O. Yuriev" <alex@bach.cis.temple.edu>
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: Alexander O. Yuriev's message of Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:39:59 -0400,
<199607241339.JAA20491@bach.cis.temple.edu>
Radious is useful for authenticating people who are logging in to
terminal servers over a modem line, where you assume that (a) the modem
line won't be tapped by the government or the phone company and (b) the
person on the modem can't tap the network between the terminal server
and the Radius server. (b) may be fixable if you encrypt between the
terminal server and the Radious server, but it still doesn't fix (a).
- Ted
