[10367] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Internet "PayPhones"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Thompson)
Sat Feb 19 15:29:12 1994
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 14:28:18 +0600
From: jim@chiba.tadpole.com (Jim Thompson)
To: walkerl@med.ge.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> Anyone got a public-key-encrypted IP stack that reads a PCMCIA security card?
No, but we've been thinking about it. How interested are you?
For now, I think you could get along with something like this:
notebook <---- v.32 -----> eunet <--- 8bit clean telnet ---> ppp-server.ge.com
Basically, you run PPP between the notebook and the "ppp server" on
the other 'end'. Even though you'll go through authentication at
the 'eunet' and 'gateway.ge.com' entry points, I'd recoomend running
CHAP authentication between the two PPP endpoints.
If the 'PPP' server is on the same network (subnet if you're subnetting)
as the 'notebook', then things will be quite transparent.
You can add additional 'login' sequences between eunet and ppp-server.ge.com.
Another thing I've seen done is PPP over PPP.
notebook <-- PPP --> eunet (If they supported PPP)
notebook <-- ^^^^^ --> ppp-server.ge.com
Where the first connection supports the second (again, via telnet).
Jim
