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Re: [authmeth] secure derivations of server hostname



At 12:53 PM 6/30/2003, Michael Ströder wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>I'll give two examples.
>>1) a client could derive a hostname from "localhost" in a secure fashion.
>
>How?

By use of gethostname(3) or the like.

>>2) a client could derive a hostname from a domain name in a secure fashion
>>   using DNSSEC.
>
>Yes.
>
>Ciao, Michael.