Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id JAA05607; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:12:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cs.cs.utk.edu (bulk_mailer v1.11); Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:11:42 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id JAA05465; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:11:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.xnet.com (quake.xnet.com [198.147.221.35]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id JAA05452; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:11:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [207.227.19.137] (mach137.xnet.com [207.227.19.137]) by mail.xnet.com (8.8.6/XNet-3.0R) with ESMTP id IAA13721; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:11:34 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jpalme@mail.dsv.su.se Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:41:30 +0200 To: Paul Hoffman , drums@cs.utk.edu From: Jacob Palme Subject: Re: Authentication through mail queries List-Unsubscribe: At 21.57 +0200 98-08-26, Jacob Palme wrote: > I mentioned, at the meeting in Chicago, the very common > method of authentication in web servers, by sending a query > through e-mail with a transaction ID in it, and requiring a > response to this to authenticate someone. You said that you > was interested. A good example of use of this method can be found at http://bscw.gmd.de/pub/english.cgi/0/15?op=rmail ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme