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- From: alexb@minerva1.bull.it (Alessandro Bottonelli)
- Subject: Re: ..dialback modems...
- Message-ID: <C1K6yH.4n5@minerva1.bull.it>
- Organization: Bull Italia SpA
- References: <1993Jan19.160818.8276@crd.ge.com> <1993Jan20.172626.11028@bernina.ethz.ch> <1993Jan21.173344.4911@crd.ge.com> <1jmqbjINNn46@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:11:04 GMT
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- cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
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- >It's important not to settle for mediocre when one can get real security for
- >very little money. Specifically, there are encrypting and authenticating
- >devices available from various vendors (eg., Racal-Guardata) for reasonable
- >amounts of money. Dialback was a solution years ago which has, in the
- >intervening time:
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- > 1. been defeated
- > 2. been made obsolete
- > 3. been talked about long enough to become public knowledge,
- > thereby generating much apparent market demand
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- Would you and others elaborate a little bit on point 1 & 2 ? Possibly with
- some real-world examples?
-
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