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From: hal@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Hal Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: IP authentication
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Date: 17 Apr 89 12:49:28 GMT
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Speaking of encryption on a LAN: 

There's a group meeting for some time called: LAN Security Study Group
(802.10 I think) working toward a group  of encryption standards for LAN.
These are algorithm independent but, everyone likes DES for the traffic
and they've just gotten a proposal for RSA key distribution.
They're been laying a lot of ground work and of couse, 
certain vendors would like the standard to look like their product(s)
(nothing new in this). For more information you might send mail to
kek@mitre-bedford.arpa (mbunix.mitre.org), Kim acts as chairperson of
the group.

Before you trade in your trusty TCPDUMP and overhaul your old rotor
machines, what about all those keys that are going to be floating around 
the net. If everyone shares a common key you get no security. If everyones
got a different key, well, start thinking about key management. 

                           -hal@gateway.mitre.org