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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: How to write a "turnin" utility??
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- Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
- References: <1992Dec29.015418.12223@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <C010F5.9D6@news.iastate.edu> <1hpr33INNco0@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:21:53 GMT
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- In article <1hpr33INNco0@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >In article <C010F5.9D6@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- >>others are no doubt possible. Actually, given the known horrors of setuid
- >>scripts it should really be a program (or god forbid, Perl, the APL of
- >>scripts) to be safe.
- >
- >Why bother? There is already a facility designed for transferring large
- >amounts of text from one user to another in a secure manner. It's called
- >mail.
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- That's the first time I've ever heard someone call email "secure".
- Evidently our definitions of "secure" differ.
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- A mail solution can be trivially spoofed.
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- --Dave
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