[5676] in Kerberos
Re: authentication secure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hirata)
Fri Aug 11 14:36:37 1995
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 11:13:25 PDT
From: khirata@emulex.com (Ken Hirata)
To: hartmans@MIT.EDU, houle@acns.fsu.edu
Cc: jwb@wilbur.hhisland.com, kerberos@MIT.EDU
On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Art Houle wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
> > This used to be trivial; below 2400 baud, you can actually
> > disable the carrier generator on some modems and actually get it to
> > listen to the conversation. I suspect it's also fairly trivial under
> > ISDN for those with sufficient clue.
> >
> > --Sam
>
> I suspect that 99% of dial-up users are not capable of being taped at the
> phone connection, due to the integrated nature of high speed modem
> technology.
>
Not being up on the latest modem functionality, I'll ask:
How hard would it be to introduce enough noise at modem negotiation time
to cause them to fall back to <= 2400 baud?
Ken Hirata
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