Every week, I participate in a computer net here in baltimore, MD. This
week we talked about security and ham radio.
Now we are forbidden to encrypt data - but we can agree on protocalls
-i.e. ax25 - that we dein not to be encryption, because the means for
interpreting the packets is open and available.
Lately on my campus (I am a johns hopkins student) we have had problems
with packet snooping - and system breakins.
So - we have an uncomfortable intersection. We agree as hams overall,
simply not to look at eachother's passwords etc. when we log in, but this
is not terribly secure.
One alternative is a request systerm, where the authentication is done by
the server asks you a question (i.e the number 234252) and you look up on
a chart the coordinating word (i.e. FISH) and thus you are authenticated
and you password is different every time.
I usually use ssh for authentication, but of course I can't over ham
radio.
So I am interested in any thoughts or knowledge people have on this.
-ben
kc2cib
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