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Re: An attack on paypal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jun 11 20:32:19 2003

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:07:15 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>

Let me point folk at http://www.securityfocus.com/news/5654
for a related issue.  To put it very briefly, *real* authentication is 
hard.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)



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