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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: secure netnews/NNTP
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Date: 11 Apr 90 00:22:07 GMT
References: <6736@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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In article <6736@fy.sei.cmu.edu> tgp@sei.cmu.edu (Tod Pike) writes:
>   I am interested in setting up a mailing list to discuss ways of
> improving the security of netnews and NNTP, in order to provide methods
> of authenticating the source of a news article.

Watch for my auth package in c.s.unix, assuming Rich gets around to it.
auth provides (among other things) an implementation of RFC 931, the
Authentication Server, which neatly solves all these problems. I do not
deny the rumor that I'm going to use auth in a forthcoming NNTP clone to
provide full authentication within any subnet that supports it.

---Dan