OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1994: Re: NFS exporting

Re: NFS exporting

Perry E. Metzger (perrysnark.imsi.com)
Thu, 14 Apr 1994 13:34:13 -0400

smbresearch.att.com says:
> 	  A while back I saw some discussion about NFS using tcp instead of
> 	  udp. Would this make things any more secure?
> 
> Yes, considerably; it's much harder (though by no means impossible)
> to butt in to the middle of a TCP session.

I'll note that that Steve is pointing out that TCP makes spoofing
harder -- it does nothing about stealing file handles (as I'm certain
he knows.)

Perry