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User Authentication

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From: george
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:20
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Apologies if you feel this is not the right newsgroup, but
no more specific group seems to exist.

Anyway, how can a device initially be securely connected to an
insecure network? i.e. anyone could attach a device knowing trivial
information. Problem is to only accept messages from a device
if it is known about. One idea I had was to inbuild some
code into a device which is entered into the main system. A match
could then be made between the id of a device and the id known on
the main system. However, someone might be able to extract the
info from a current device and then replace it with their own
device!

I'm sure that this problem must have had lots of work, can anyone
give me any pointers/references?

Thanks - George Bolt

Please email responses to: george@psychmips.york.ac.uk
or george@minster.york.ac.uk if the former address fails.
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From: george@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: User Authentication
Message-ID: <724684845.11614@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:20:46 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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