On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
The appropriate question is how much encryption (and other security) is needed if interrupting the traffic causes the loss of a great deal of money and difficult (if possible at all) fixes. This is the mindset of the Fed security wienies when specifying and designing; thus it must be the mindset of the non-Fed Wienie looking to crack.
Well, if it matters any, my initial impression was that this discussion was based upon taking over the rover, not necessarily upon just performing a DoS attack on it. Frankly, I can't see a point to a DoS attack... taking it over, on the other hand could be fun.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------