IFX Mail Archive: Re: Authentication of Senders in IFAX

Re: Authentication of Senders in IFAX

Richard Shockey (rshockey@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:54:52 -0600

At 12:35 AM 2/25/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The Goals draft talks about the requirement to authenticate senders and
>recipients.

Quack? You mean for Off-Ramps ?

>What kind of security will be needed to actually provide this?

It would depend on the type of off ramp, relay or redirection.

>This also raises the question about how authentication is made in Simple
>Mode Fax today?

None... thought there has been discussion of gateway behavior this has
generally been put on the back burner or deemed implementation specific.

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