At 10:46 AM 1/9/01 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>Can somebody come up with some examples of practical, relevant
>applications that will fail under spoofing? Any practical experiences?
yes. Financial applications, wherein the transmission of information
results in money being removed from an account. When your bank tells your
ATM to spit out money, if the communication is spoofed you can lose the
money from your account and not get the bills spit out. More generally,
transactions lost in flight can have other than a shared fate.
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