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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 1996 10:28:38 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD hacker dinner report...
Message-ID:  <199611030928.KAA12596@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611030457.EAA04901@kongur> from "obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu" at "Nov 2, 96 08:57:03 pm"

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As obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu wrote:

> But has anyone thought of the security implications of either SFTP or the
> DTP?   Could someone put mushrooms in my spaghetti in route???  Yuck!  :-)

There's an SSFTP in preparation (secure SFTP), i believe.  The food
simply gets scrambled, each piece marked with an MD5 checksum, and the
receiver takes care to only reassemble the appropriate pieces.

I seem to remember that Phil Zimmerman was also working on a PGP
extension for branding the dinner before sending it on transport.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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