Re: CIA Fears UmpTeen InfoNukes

[frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)]

At  4:57 AM 6/27/96 -0400, Vin McLellan wrote:
>...  The real threat is incompetent, poor-trained DoD
>system administrators -- and a class of computer-illiterate senior managers
>who define "system security" and routine administration as a marginal
>expenses and scorn readily available options like one-time passwords as too
>complex for the military mind.

Public key authentication could go a long way toward solving the military
and contractor's security problems.  However, they won't use public key
authentication for unclassified systems until it is available in "COTS"
(Commercial, Off The Shelf) software.  And it won't be available there
until it can be exported as well as sold domestically.  Catch-22


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