[1717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Jan 30 08:06:03 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:02:46 -0500
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
[cc: trimmed to nanog]
At 07:50 PM 1/30/96 +1100, Robert Elz wrote:
>
>I also know that there are attacks that can be made without
>requiring return packets at all - those I have to deal with
>in other ways (smart card password schemes most certainly
>aren't it) regardless of what kind of address (statically
>assigned, or dynamically assigned) my brother gets.
>
Yes, I understand completely.
Actually, we could go back and forth like this forever, punching
holes in secure access control methods.
Let's just agree that without strong end-to-end encryption, its
all swiss cheese. :-)
- paul
