I-D ACTION:draft-haller-auth-requirements-05.txt

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       Title     : Internet Authentication Guidelines                      
       Author(s) : N. Haller, R. Atkinson
       Filename  : draft-haller-auth-requirements-05.txt
       Pages     : 14
       Date      : 07/11/1994

The authentication requirements of computing systems and network protocols 
vary greatly with their intended use, accessibility, and their network 
connectivity.  This document describes a spectrum of authentication 
technologies and provides guidance to protocol developers on what kinds of 
authentication might be suitable for what kinds of protocols and 
applications used in the Internet.                           

Disclosing passwords, which are vulnerable to passive attack,  are not 
strong enough to be appropriate in the current Internet. [CERT94] 
Further, there is ample evidence that both passive and active attacks 
are not uncommon in the current Internet.  [Bellovin89, Bellovin92, 
Bellovin93, CB94, Stoll90] The authors of this paper believe that many 
protocols used in the Internet should have stronger authentication 
mechanisms so that they are at least protected from passive attacks. 
Support for authentication mechanisms secure against active attack 
is clearly desirable in internetworking protocols.                                                                 

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