Jim Kenyon says:
> According to Jerry Popek at Locus, PCI uses a proprietary encoding -- 
> you'd have to know what they're using to sniff and decode the password 
> exchange.  From a practicle standpoint, if you have someone sniffing your 
> net, you have bigger problems than just someone finding a PC connecting 
> to AFS's password....

In an environment where real money rides on the network and everything
else is tied down, this is a problem. Security is not provided by
obscure packet formats.

Perry

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