"An Attack on the Interlock protocol When Used for Authentication", SM Bellovin, M Merritt, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory v 40 no 1 (Jan 94) pp 273-- 275  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....establishing trust that do not rely on some bootstrapping event in the physical world. The Rivest Shamir interlock protocol is the only one we know of that can achieve a similar effect [24] but previous comment on it has focussed on the understandable difficulty of using it for authentication [25]. 6.2 Tamper evident audit trails It is a well known problem that an intruder can often acquire root status by using well known operating system weaknesses, and then alter the audit and log information to remove the evidence of the intrusion. In order to prevent this, some Unix systems require ....

"An Attack on the Interlock protocol When Used for Authentication", SM Bellovin, M Merritt, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory v 40 no 1 (Jan 94) pp 273-- 275

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