RE: xAP - protocol security.

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Well - I'm getting as many private messages as list messages.

Please DO see using xAP for automation, not just information.

M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 August 2002 14:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] xAP - protocol security.


On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 2:06 pm, Mark Harrison wrote:
> My view is that most of the messages passing around would be
information
> rather than control.
>
> It would be easy to build a "password" key/value pair into
messages that
> are control-based...
>
> ... however, would be relatively easy to snoop.
>
> The problem is, anything that talks to an embedded device can't use
any
> strong crypto. Therefore needs to be kept physically secure.

I think someone already said it, but if you have problems with people 
accessing your xAP devices you have a bigger problem that you need to sort
out.

Also, I'm not sure what xAP stands for, but if it's x Automation Protocol,
perhaps xIP for x Information Protocol would be better if no control is
being 
done with it? (and  it keeps its nice xippy acronym too :-)


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