Path: utzoo!mnetor!spectrix!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Pseudonymous Postings
Message-ID: <2256@geac.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 21:44:24 GMT
References: <2929@dasys1.UUCP> <1803@mind.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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Summary: Not impossible, just arbitrarily hard.

In article <1803@mind.UUCP> harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) writes:
>[...]     But, unfortunately, I am told that this is not a
>problem that net administrators could fix even if they wanted to:
>The "authentication problem" is theoretically unsolved in network
>theory. 

  Actually, it isn't either unsolved or unsolvable.  Its just
recalcitrant.  Like writing a B-secure Unix, it's almost more work
than its worth.

 --dave
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