Outline for April 11, 1997

  1. Greetings and Felicitations
    1. ecs253 now up and running; the IP address is 128.120.56.74. Name, etc. is not in the DNS!
    2. Discuss rules ...
  2. Flaw Hypothesis Methodology
      Information gathering -- emphasize use of sources such as manuals, protocol specs, design documentation, social engineering, source code, knowledge of other systems, etc.
    1. Flaw hypothesis -- old rule of "if forbidden, try it; if required, don't do it"; knowledge of other systems' flaws, analysis of interfaces particularly fruitful, go for assumptions and trusts
    2. Flaw testing -- see if hypothesized flaw holds; preferable not to try it out, but look at system closely enough to see if it will work, design attack and be able to show why it works; but sometimes actual test necessary -- do not use live production system and be sure it's backed up!
    3. Flaw generalization -- given flaw, look at causes and try to generalize. Example: UNIX environment variables.
    4. (sometimes) Flaw elimination -- fix it; may require redesign so the penetrators may not do it
  3. Example penetrations
    1. MTS
    2. Burroughs

Notes by Alan Jondle: [Text]
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