Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:25646 alt.security:2551 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!tymix!cirrusl!ss168!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,alt.security Subject: Re: BSD tty security, part 3: How to Fix It Message-ID: <3136@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 16 May 91 19:23:20 GMT References: <19270@rpp386.cactus.org> <25833:May1416:43:4291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <19276@rpp386.cactus.org> <14021:May1521:56:2291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <19281@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: Rahul Dhesi Lines: 13 In <19281@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: >Can I change my baud rate while waiting for the SAK sequence? Of >course there's a need to turn off the SAK key - how long is a UUCP >packet this week? A secure attention key sequence, to be secure, must use an out-of-band channel. As an analogous example, the DTR line to a modem is out-of-band and cannot be defeated no matter what you send on the data lines. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi