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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: How to write a "turnin" utility??
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 00:38:03 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- References: <1hpr33INNco0@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <0291H&pdqb@atlantis.psu.edu> <Dec29.212116.55124@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <0291H&pdqb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
- >
- > That's the first time I've ever heard someone call email "secure".
- >Evidently our definitions of "secure" differ.
- >
- > A mail solution can be trivially spoofed.
-
- It's possible very easily for someone to turn in an assignment under another
- person's name, but this isn't a problem (since it's easy enough for two
- people colluding to do this anyway). But, it's very difficult for anyone
- to see the assignments of others, or assignments which he himself has turned
- in, and this is the most important security factor.
-
- It's possible for mail to be spoofed, but it doesn't benefit the students
- trying to cheat to do so.
- --scott
-