Re: references to password sniffer incident

1999-04-11 Thread Bill Frantz
I know of three systems that have been attacked in the last month or so. One was attacked by social engineering the password out of an user. Another was attacked by installing NETBUS on an user's machine. The third was attacked by having the attacker subscribe himself to the mailing list used to

Re: P1363: Re: The name of RSA

1999-04-11 Thread Michael J. Markowitz
At 04:58 PM 4/9/99 -0400, Vin McLellan wrote: The discussion of alternative names for "RSA" has been an amazing and entertaining carnival, spawned by a wildly exaggerated interpretation of a 3/1/99 SDTI letter to the P1363 working group. SDTI, RSA's parent firm, for which I have been a

Re: P1363, name RSA

1999-04-11 Thread Roger Schlafly
I was the one who originally raised the issue regarding whether a standard should use the name "RSA", so I thought I'd explain the history. See, eg, the Aug. 96 P1363 minutes http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/minutes/Aug96.txt where I argued in vain that "RSA" should be replaced by a more