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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: xAP - protocol security.
The idea though, is for phase 1 to be displays, but future expansion to include control elements. and given the I/O capabilities of the Noritake VFD displays, possibly not even *that much* in the future... I'm staying quiet after my initial doomsaying, not because I am unconvinced, but for quite the opposite reason. No free cash to run off and buy Rabbits/VFDs etc, etc, and i am getting more excited about what is happening here by the day! -----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 :-) For more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk Post message: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subscribe: ukha_d-subscribe@xxxxxxx Unsubscribe: ukha_d-unsubscribe@xxxxxxx List owner: ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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