[2037] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Hacking a Personal Computer via E-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Andrieu)
Thu May 9 22:34:31 1996
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 17:25:20 -0700
From: Joe Andrieu <andrieu@association.org>
Reply-To: andrieu@association.org
To: Steve Neruda <Steve_Neruda@nationwide.com>
CC: Rolf Weber <weber@iez.com>, Chris Garrigues <cwg@DeepEddy.Com>,
www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Steve Neruda wrote:
> Take a look at RFC 1149 "IP over Carrier Pigeons"
>
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/rfc/rfc1149.txt/
>
> Guess if you can't do it with IP you can't do it ;-)
Wait. There's some confusion here. IP is a datagram protocol-- it's
just a way of defining which bits serve what function. Any datagram
protocol can tunnel in any other datagram protocol.
However transmission protocols, like TCP often have time-sensitive
components which cannot be "tunnelled". I'd like to see someone try
TCP/IP over carrier pigeons.
-j
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Joe Andrieu Internet Developers Association
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andrieu@association.org
