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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Log message improvement for rpc.statd
Message-ID:  <200008211430.KAA06409@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200008191817.NAA09304@drwho.xnet.com>
References:  <200008191817.NAA09304@drwho.xnet.com>

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<<On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:18:13 -0500 (CDT), Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> said:

> RPC is, by nature, insecure.  

Not true.  It's just our implementation (copied from Sun) that's
insecure.  There are plenty of secure RPC protocols around --
including some that fit within the Sun ONC framework (such as
RPCSEC_GSS as used in Kerberos 5's admin protocol).

-GAWollman

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