[email protected] (Joel C. Ewing) writes: > The RSA device that we used for remote access was user-specific and > clock-synced. To access the corporate VPN you had to supply your > network userid, and the user-specific pseudo-random numeric password > displayed by your RSA card. The pseudo-random password changed every > minute with an indication of how much time was left before the next > change. The process may have had a little tolerance to allow for typing > across the change boundary, but it wasn't much. Ours seemed pretty good > about staying in sync. After getting into VPN, getting into specific > servers or mainframe typically required additional userid and user password.
RSA originally was company for kind of public key encryption (licensing the technology and provided the "BSAFE" library implementation) ... and, in fact ... a former member of the ibm cambridge science center, served as its CEO for a time. Then the company making the Secure-ID token bought RSA and changed the name of the secure-id token to the RSA token. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID and now division of EMC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28security_firm%29 a couple recent posts mentioning BSAFE: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#27 TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#15 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS? some old mainframe crypto related email (from the 80s) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crytpo trivia ... one of the people from a vendor I worked with at IBM in the 80s ... implemented some software for their personal use ... and then introduced it as VPN at an early 90s IETF (internet) standards meeting in san jose. The IPSEC people objected ... eventually referring to VPN as "lightweight" IPSEC (of course that allowed the VPN people to refer to IPSEC as "heavyweight"). other posts in this thread http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#29 Special characters for Passwords http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#30 Special characters for Passwords http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#34 Special characters for Passwords http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#35 Special characters for Passwords http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#37 Special characters for Passwords http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#41 Special characters for Passwords -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
