Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at iu-bremen.de>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:40:55PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:

> Authentication is sometimes symmetric; it is not in the case of
> passwords.  For authentication methods like public key or GSS, it is
> reasonably symmetric.

The networking boxes I have access to all use password authentication
because they like to stick the password into RADIUS/TACACS...

I am not sure what "reasonably symmetric" means. Who authenticates
whom and in which way if the server establishes a connection to the
client with public key or GSS?

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
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