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Re: Access to the Internic Blocked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Fri Aug 23 09:30:22 1996

From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: curtis@ans.net
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:18:22 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: avg@quake.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608230418.AAA02980@brookfield.ans.net> from "Curtis Villamizar" at Aug 23, 96 00:18:48 am

> Who said one time passwords were secure.  Kerberos mutual
> authentication with encrypted payload is my choice.  Some people
> prefer SSL.  AFS is nice if you can afford it.  Skey just doesn't cut
> it.  Skey is only slightly better than passwords in the clear.

If you don't care that people see your mail or administrative docs, and
if everything you do locally is skeyed, why do you feel that s/key is
so useless?

> Curtis

Just curious,

Avi

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