Just ran across this RFC and I almost wet myself.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Looks like an April fool's joke.

Alex

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The physical implementation: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
Norwegian, of course ;-)

Hans

23 nov 2007 kl. 06:22 skrev Alex Karasulu:

> Just ran across this RFC and I almost wet myself.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
>
> Looks like an April fool's joke.
>
> Alex

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Hans
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Hans wrote:
> The physical implementation: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
> Norwegian, of course ;-)

Very interesting. Sadly enough, after those tests, the protocol has been
abandonned due to security issues : the attack known as PITM (Pigeon In
the Middle) has no clear solution.

Another failure is that there is no way to reliably read the message
send through Avian carier on linux with the 'cat' command...
>
> Hans
>
> 23 nov 2007 kl. 06:22 skrev Alex Karasulu:
> 
>
> ---
> Hans
> mailto:hmlhdr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
>
>
>


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