[Info-vax] Some SEARCH commands

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-03-01, Mark Berryman <mark at theberrymans.com> wrote:
>
> Any viable step one takes to add security is helpful.  Here, I was 
> simply pointing out that there are ways to use DECnet proxies to make 
> your DECnet network more secure, contrary to Simon's claim.  Among other 
> things, he claims that DECnet doesn't support shared secrets, which is 
> false (and I should have addressed that in my previous reply).  In 
> DECnet, they are called Routing Initialization Passwords and, if 
> configured, they must be exchanged before two nodes will communicate via 
> DECnet.  Now, whether these are sent in the clear or as a hash I no 
> longer remember, but this is a concern only if your network layer is, 
> itself, in the clear.
>

Routing initialisation passwords appear to only be supported on
point to point links. They do not appear to be supported on normal
Ethernet style connections.

Simon.

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