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> <Apr.10.23.46.46.1989.12488@geneva.rutgers.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.
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