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  1. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.banyan-l
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dsh!gary
  3. From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
  4. Subject: Re: password encyrption?
  5. Organization: Delaware State Hospital
  6. References: <BANYAN-L%92123005023322@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
  7. Message-ID: <C04n92.1EI@dragon.dsh.org>
  8. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:07:49 GMT
  9. Lines: 17
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  11. In article <BANYAN-L%92123005023322@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> Craig Armstrong <craiga@SPOCK.DIS.CCCD.EDU> writes:
  12. >
  13. >Regardless of the connection media you are using ( modem, 10baseT, ... ) any
  14. >request to a VINES service is the same since the transport layer is
  15. >transparent to the upper (sesion, application ) layers. Therefore, yes, the
  16. >password is encrypted when it is sent to Vanguard. I will say though that
  17. >the encryption alogorithm sucks at best! :-)
  18. >
  19.    What, no Kerberos? :-)
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  21.                                    Gary D. Duzan
  22.                                    Network Administrator
  23.                                    Delaware State Hospital
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