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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William Westfield)
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Subject: Authentication
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 21:18:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 21:18:14 1987
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Is there a spec for a general purpose authentication service ?
What I want is somewhere I can send a UDP datagram containing things
like my host name, my user name, my password, and perhaps other info
(all somewhat encrypted, hopefully), and get back a response that says
yes or no.  (note that this is different than the TCP level authentication
server described in rfc931...

Thanks
Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
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