On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 23:38, David Johnston wrote:
> 1. Ideally, we could use IPSec to authenticate each *workstation* long
> before we ask for names or passwords.  However, each workstation starts
> up without a key every time it starts (it either builds one, or gets it
> from a central server somehow).  I think this means that we cannot use
> the IPSec keys to authenticate the workstation.  How can we prove that
> the workstation isn't an outsider trying to get into our network?
> 
> 2. How can we prevent man-in-the-middle attacks?  Is it possible without
> workstation authentication?

But surely we do have some form of workstation authentication, the DHCP
server can be configured to respond only to known MACs, and do nothing
for others.

-- 
Dave Cotton
Directeur
Linux Autrement




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