Firewalls: Re: Security implications of DHCP?

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Subject:	Re: Security implications of DHCP?
From:	Adam Shostack <adam @ homeport . org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 1996 20:44:23 -0500 (EST)
To:	gdunn @ gateway . grumman . com (George Dunn)
Cc:	Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<1 . 5 . 4 . 32 . 19960815163030 . 0068f334 @ gateway . grumman . com> from "George Dunn" at Aug 15, 96 12:30:30 pm

George Dunn wrote:

| >From a security point of view, what are the pros and cons of DHCP? 

	A dhcp machine can't use securid authentication tokens because
the ACE/server uses IP to index into its database of client secret
keys.

	The pro- or con- nature of this is a matter of opinion.  ;)

Adam

-- 
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					               -Hume

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Security implications of DHCP?
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