mod-os@sdcsvax.UUCP (01/04/87)
From: Darrell Long (The Moderator) <mod-os@sdcsvax.uucp>
Operating Systems Digest Sun Jan 4 08:43:21 PST 1987 Volume 1 : Issue 2
Today's topics: Insecure physical mediums for information transmission
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From: SKY <ucbvax!cad.Berkeley.EDU!ames!seismo!rochester!ken@sdcsvax>
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
Uucp: ..!{allegra,decvax,seismo}!rochester!ken ARPA: ken@rochester.arpa
Snail: CS Dept., U. of Roch., NY 14627. Voice: Ken!
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 87 02:17:24 -0500
There are two related topics I would to see like discussed here. In
mod.risks someone asked about the security risks of putting a LAN
through university dormitories, where would-be hackers could tap
sensitive information.
Question: what OS research is directed towards this problem of a
distributed environment? For example, so far we have assumed that NFS
carrying Ethernets are physically secure, but this will no longer be
true.
Amoeba had a scheme in which physically secure encryption boxes were
used at the wall socket. Are there any other ideas out there?
Ken
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