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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ethernet watcher
Message-ID: <6426@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 17:29:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 17:29:12 1987
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References: <4263@ozdaltx.UUCP> <15136@hi.UUCP> <1178@mtune.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1178@mtune.ATT.COM> jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) writes:
>In article <15136@hi.UUCP> josh@hi.UUCP (Josh Siegel) writes:
>:		it watches TCP/IP connections on the ethernet.
>You mean that Sun doesn't offer end-to-end encryption?

It's not the Sun that has the problem, but the protocols used on the
net (which may have other machine types attached to it).  It does
not seem to generally realized that Internet protocols are subject
to spoofing as well as snooping; Bob Morris provides some interesting
information in Bell Labs CSTR #117.