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Mutual authentication.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prakash Jayaraman)
Thu Dec 8 01:51:34 1994

From: Prakash Jayaraman <jayarama@chaph.usc.edu>
To: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 11:58:54 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: Prakash Jayaraman <jayarama@chaph.usc.edu>

Is there any specification for mutual authentication on WWW?

(There are too many servers now and it is possible there is intrusion
at the server site to cause harm to the innocent clients).

As far as I know, in Kerberos, servers are trusted.  Isn't it possible
to intrude at the server site ? 

_J._Prakash

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