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- From: plipp@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at (Peter Lipp)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: Fake sources?
- Message-ID: <1991Nov26.080713.1571@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Date: 26 Nov 91 08:07:13 GMT
- References: <14617@gollum.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: Institut fuer Angewandte Informationsverarbeitung, TU Graz
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- In article <14617@gollum.UMCS.Maine.EDU> who@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU writes:
- >
- > Is it possible to fake the source of a packet traveling on the net?
- > The obvious secuirty breach I'am thinking of is this: Machine A is remotely
- > connected to Machine B. Is it possible to send information; ie commands,
- > to Machine B from another machine and make Machine B **think** it came
- > from Machine A? Kerebose can provide security when you first connect, but
- > after the connection is made......
-
- Yes, of course. Depending on the Protocol. For TCP/IP you can read a good
- summary on Security Problems in
-
- S.M.Bellovin, Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Computer Communi-
- cation Review, Vol 19, No 2, pp 32-48, April 1989. Also downloadable by
- anonymous ftp from somwhere, can't remember, sorry.
-
- Peter Lipp
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