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Article #2453User Authentication
From: george
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:20
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!yorkohm!minster!george 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 Lines: 20