[1083] in bugtraq
Re: X keyboard sniffing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Fri Feb 24 18:03:03 1995
To: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Message from mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU of 24 Feb 95 11:01:48 EST
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 16:04:07 EST
From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
> Um, I thought there was no user-based authentication, only host-based
> or magic-value-based.
You are behind the times, Mouse. The sample implementation now has
two user-based authentication schemes. X11R5 introduced SUN-DES-1,
based on Sun's secure RPC. X11R6 introduced MIT-KERBEROS-5, based on
Kerberos 5's user-to-user authentication.
< Stephen
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