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From: zweig@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Password transmission and encryptio
Message-ID: <93400006@uiucdcsp>
Date: 13 May 88 05:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!zweig    May 13 00:11:00 1988


	The best and most common solution I know of is to have ``boring''
accounts that accept anonymous FTP (witness sri-nic et al.) so nobody
cares who listens in to passwords. :-) If it's worth protecting, it's
worth hiding from rlogin's and ftp and that sort of thing, isn't it?


Johnny Zweig
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
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