re: question on campus computer security

Brad Kemp (kemp@indusriver.com)
Tue, 19 May 1998 16:53:54 -0400

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At 11:30 AM 5/19/98 -0700, Greg Noel wrote:
>On Tue, 19 May 1998, James Black wrote:
>> The current project that needs some security would be having people
>> send passwords over the Internet (needed for LDAP), ...
>
>If the major motivator is to avoid sending passwords in the clear, one
>possibility is Stanford's SRP (http://jafar.stanford.edu/srp). You'd
>still have to type a password, but the authentication process doesn't put
>it on the wire.
>

Also look at SPEKE from Integrity Sciences http://world.std.com/~dpj/
Brad Kemp BradKemp@IndusRiver.com

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