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Subject: Re: One Time Password Tokens
From: Jas (Matthew K) <matt @ uts . EDU . AU>
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 00:26:21 +1000 (EST)
To: padgett @ tccslr . dnet . mmc . com (A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com (Firewalls Mailing List)
In-reply-to: <9505071218 . AA07010 @ uvs1 . orl . mmc . com> from "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" at May 7, 95 08:18:03 am

A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security wrote this...

> The problem with incorporating such a scheme to a time synchronous
> operation is that the clock drift on a PC is notoriously bad. There
> is a way that host/PC could first synchronize their clocks but I
> have not seen anyone do that, yet.
SecureRPC has a mechanism that does exactly this.. has done for years,
and yes RPC is available for platforms other than Un*x

			Matt
-- 
#!/bin/sh
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D3F204445524F42snlbxq'|dc;exit
Matthew Keenan   Systems Programmer   Information Technology Division
      University of Technology     Sydney Australia

It's nice to be in a position where people apologize because they
assume there's humor in your work, based on past experience,
but they're not sure where it is. -- Rob Pike


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