Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: IP based authentication of hosts Message-ID: <1989Apr17.214158.5727@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <376@ists.ists.ca> <29416@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <29455@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <10526@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <29475@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <10540@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <29549@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <710@scaup.cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 21:41:58 GMT In article <710@scaup.cl.cam.ac.uk> scc@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley) writes: >I want security that is on the same level as me keeping sensitive >materials in a locked filing cabinet inside a locked office with the >nightwatchman walking the corridors... Gee, you mean one of those filing cabinets whose locks can be picked with a paperclip? Inside an office that opens to a master key that the janitor has? The nightwatchman is actually very useful, I can have him hold the door for me as I walk out with an armload of papers. Let us not kid ourselves. An awful lot of non-computer security rests primarily on the rarity of determined and sophisticated intruders. -- Welcome to Mars! Your | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology passport and visa, comrade? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu