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Article #538SMTP source verification.
From: Hans-Werner_Braun%UMich-MTS.Mail...
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1985 18:14
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1985 18:14
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Lots of people appear to be thinking that a verification of IP
addresses, e.g., in the case of SMTP is not necessary. I am not sure
whether and where this was already discussed before, but I get the
impression that the proliferation of low cost workstations connected to,
say, campus computer networks might change our minds in two to three
years in an environment where most of the power (besides parts of
routing) will go to these hosts. I presume that this will be a newly
evolving problem which could not easily show up so far. What are the
suggested measures against faked message headers in that case? IP source
verification? Something else? Or is this considered to be no problem at
all?
-- Hans-Werner
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