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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!niko From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) Subject: Re: 386bsd security enhancements are needed before using INTERNET! Message-ID: <1992Jul27.183548.20598@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA References: <l74ebkINN1sd@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul27.173631.4223@gateway.novell.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:35:48 GMT Lines: 20 >>fact of the matter is that the precompiled password authentication codes >>present absolutely no risk to national security. > > The problem is the ability to distribute source. One of the base >intentions of 386BSD, from what I have seen, is to make everything freely Aren't there keys that can be changed on a system by system basis? For some algorithms it could take a fast computer a long time to crack the codes even if it knew the algorithm... -- Niko Schuessler Project Vincent Systems Manager email: niko@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center voice: (515) 294-1672 Ames IA 50010 snail: 272 Durham