Wednesday, September 1, 1993

Re: Cisco backdoor? (RISKS-14.87,88,89) After consulting with Cisco, they have convinced me that the phenomenon I reported earlier in RISKS-14.87 was not a back door but was instead a unique situation to a particular company's equipment caused by an unrelated management issue. The explanation seems reasonable, and I am willing to assume that the supposed back door does not exist at this point, especially since several independent groups have not been able to confirm its existence. Those with Cisco routers can presumably relax, at least as far as this issue is concerned. Al Whaley al@sunnyside.com +1-415 322-5411(Tel), -6481 (Fax) Sunnyside Computing, Inc., PO Box 60, Palo Alto, CA 94302 [At Al's request, and as a courtesy to CISCO, I have appended a note in the CRVAX ARCHIVE copy of RISKS-14.87 and RISKS-14.89 pointing to THIS issue. Other archive maintainers may wish to recopy those issues. Thanks. PGN] [Al Whaley via risks-digest Volume 15, Issue 01] 6:36 # G!