On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:40:55PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Authentication is sometimes symmetric; it is not in the case of > passwords. For authentication methods like public key or GSS, it is > reasonably symmetric. The networking boxes I have access to all use password authentication because they like to stick the password into RADIUS/TACACS... I am not sure what "reasonably symmetric" means. Who authenticates whom and in which way if the server establishes a connection to the client with public key or GSS? /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf