[3674] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: Is a serial cable as good as thin air?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Nov 30 21:53:45 1998
Date: 30 Nov 1998 18:21:17 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE2013F85D7@MSX11002>
Brown, R Ken writes:
> If I was a bank I would be very wary of proposals like "We would write our
> own transmission protocol. " That seems to introduce yet more complexity,
> not to mention maintenance effort and undiscovered bugs. It would seem safer
> (more conservative a bank might say) to use off-the-shelf code which had
> been tried and tested (& for which source code was available if you really
> cared about security)
Use xmodem. Only provide the receive code and the transmission code
on the respective sides. That will be as safe as sneakernet.
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