Re: HIDDEN-USER

Mark Andrews <mandrews@alias.com> Mon, 17 August 1992 13:36 UTC

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:16:43 -0400
From: Mark Andrews <mandrews@alias.com>
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To: Mike StJohns <stjohns@umd5.umd.edu>, dupuy@cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: HIDDEN-USER
Cc: ident@NRI.Reston.VA.US

I find it rather strange that this group is talking about an identity server
with a HIDDEN USER or anonymity option. If I was paranoid [which I sometimes
am :)], I would think the HIDDEN-USER option was a method to get past the
ident server.

Mark