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From: karn@jupiter..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
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Subject: Re: Yet Another useful paper
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Date: 30 Dec 88 00:00:29 GMT
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>Let's see if I have this right... you are going to allow the
>workstation that is sitting on my desk to convince another system that
>I am me, right?

Use a little imagination. Your workstation might use the pass phrase that
you give it when you first log in as the secret key in an encryption-based
network authentication protocol. Simply becoming root on your system would
not be enough to gain privileges on another system.

Phil