CERT statement

Marc Horowitz marc at cam.ov.com
Thu Jan 26 16:09:05 PST 1995


>> Kerberos per se isn't sufficient to defend against session hijacking
>> attacks, you know. The situation in question is really insidious and
>> requires packet-by-packet cryptographic authentication.

No, but kerberos or something like it is necessary.  And I think I can
safely say that anything which really defends against TCP sequence
spoofing or hijacking attacks will be more invasive and require more
effort than kerberos, not less.

		Marc






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