Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!howell
From: howell@ecsvax.UUCP (Doc A. Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Security on ethernet, recent LAN mag article
Message-ID: <4805@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 17:10:33 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Keywords: ethernet,security


  Did anyone read the recent LAN magazine article on ethernet security? 
I am sure some did. The article addressed the use of an ethernet monitor
to spy on an ethernet to obtain passwords, look at data, and have fun in 
general. This seems to me to be a very severe problem. With the example
given, there appears to be no way, other than encryption, to prevent
this type of problem. 

  Does anyone have any ideas of how to deal with this? Is encryption
the only answer, ($$$)? Anyone have any reason to believe than their 
networks are being spied on?