Clarification of when authentication is used

Gary Scott Malkin <gmalkin@xylogics.com> Tue, 02 August 1994 22:00 UTC

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From: Gary Scott Malkin <gmalkin@xylogics.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 18:01:12 -0400
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In-Reply-To: Fred Baker's message of Tue, 2 Aug 1994 14:44:43 -0800 <9408022144.AB00429@fennel.acc.com>
Subject: Clarification of when authentication is used

> I dunno, I would agree with Jeff's assessment: it is information exchange
> we are authenticating, we shouldn't break the management applications that
> use RIP Requests to dump route tables. Having said which, seems like the
> same logic applies to passwords.

But that means there's no way to prevent outsiders from finding out what
your routing table looks like.  Speaking for myself, I'd don't think that
is a serious problem.  However, I remember, during the RREQ debates lo
these many years ago, that some secure sites didn't even want to have to
decrement the hop count for fear of giving away topology information.

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Clarification of when authentication is used Jeffrey C Honig
Clarification of when authentication is used Gary Scott Malkin
Re: Clarification of when authentication is used Fred Baker
Clarification of when authentication is used Gary Scott Malkin
Re: Clarification of when authentication is used Fred Baker
Clarification of when authentication is used Gary Scott Malkin
Re: Clarification of when authentication is used Fred Baker