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Subject: Re: FW: Digital pathways Crypto-cards and FW1
From: Steve Kennedy <steve @ gbnet . org>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 01:41:47 +0000 (GMT)
To: Martin_Khoo/SIN/Lotus @ lotus . com
Cc: vin @ shore . net, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <48256442 . 00066D5C . 00 @ mta2 . lotus . com> from "Martin_Khoo/SIN/Lotus @ lotus . com" at Feb 18, 97 09:14:07 am

According to Martin_Khoo/SIN/Lotus @
 lotus .
 com

> Alternatively, you can look at SecurID tokens from Security Dynamics. FW-1
> supports SecurID as one of the mode of user authentication. SecurID
> authentication is client/server based ; the server (ACE server) can be
> running on the same machine as the firewall or it can be on another
> machine.
> Web site : http://www.securid.com

Until Security Dynamics implement a distributed server (they may well
have by now), their solution doesn't scale and multiple master/slaves
are required for large organisations (you can only have a single master and
slave for an entire network - I believe).

Running multiple masters allows for spoofing ...

Steve

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