The only real long-term answer is cryptographic authentication, which customers need in products, because address-based authentication will not prevent attacks.
Predictor: Bellovin, Steven M.
Prediction, in context:In an article she wrote for InfoWorld in 1995, Karen Rodriguez quotes AT&T Bell Labs computer security researcher Steve Bellovin: ”There are two major sources of security problems on the Internet: One has to do with authentication; the other has to do with bugs in software running on Internet machines [and the configuration of those machines]. The only real long-term answer is cryptographic authentication, which customers need in products, because address-based authentication will not prevent attacks.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Name of publication: InfoWorld
Title, headline, chapter name: Vendors Rally to Secure Internet; Encryption-Based Systems Readied
Quote Type: Direct quote
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Bolger, John S.