Re: spoofing the ethernet address

[peak () ARGO TROJA MFF CUNI CZ (Pavel Kankovsky)]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Ex Machina [xm] wrote:

> What we've come up against here is a serious problem in our security
> models. How do we confirm the authenticity of a network packet and not
> leave ourselves vulnerable to resource consumption attacks?

We use an infrastructure that provides reliable and explicit information
about the peer's identity, such as a dedicated pair of wires to every peer
with the sufficient level of physical protection. :)

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."