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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: Proposed protocol for positive ID over Internet
Message-ID: <11374@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 25 Mar 89 16:54:17 GMT
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In article <27904.606784987@twg.com>, galvin@TWG.COM (James M Galvin) writes:
> Whew!  Talk about assumptions.  Do you realize how sweeping these
> assumptions are?

Jim Galvin is quite correct; relying on accurate knowledge on the remote
machine id in tcp/ip is hopeless.  In fact, that's one of the major
recurring themes of a paper of mine that will appear in the April '89
issue of Computer Communications Review.  (Aside:  Craig Partridge,
the editor, posted a blurb for several articles in that issue to
comp.protocols.tcp-ip, as well as information on how to join SIGCOMM
and get the journal.)

		--Steve Bellovin
		smb@ulysses.att.com