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Article #2760Re: Anti-spoofing protocol?
From: Phil Karn
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 07:35
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 07:35
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Bob Cain suggests the possibility of a spoofer interfering with a plaintext voice call. Sure, this is certainly possible in theory, although I wouldn't want the job of doing it in real time between a pair of speakers who know each other very well. Nevertheless, this is just one example of the general concept. With public key cryptography you eliminate the need for confidentiality of the initial key-setting path, even if you still do need to maintain authenticity. And that is an enormous practical advantage, because I can think of *many* non-confidential channels where I can maintain a pretty high level of integrity in the traffic not being modified. And I can use several such channels for redundancy. Phil
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!qualcom.qualcomm.com!servo.qualcomm.com!karn From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) Subject: Re: Anti-spoofing protocol? Message-ID: <1993Jan5.073526.13043@qualcomm.com> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Nntp-Posting-Host: servo.qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc References: <1993Jan5.031805.26623@qualcomm.com> <1993Jan5.054857.10718@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:35:26 GMT Lines: 15