Yet Another useful paper

[Phil R. Karn]

>Let's see if I have this right... you are going to allow the
>workstation that is sitting on my desk to convince another system that
>I am me, right?

Use a little imagination. Your workstation might use the pass phrase that
you give it when you first log in as the secret key in an encryption-based
network authentication protocol. Simply becoming root on your system would
not be enough to gain privileges on another system.

Phil