January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 6m
English
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1Spoofing and Authenticity
Shortly after we first meet Luke Skywalker, he is cleaning his newly acquired droids, and R2-D2 teases him with part of a message that is only supposed to play for Obi-Wan Kenobi. How does R2-D2 know who Obi-Wan Kenobi is? How does he decide to play the recording of Princess Leia for Obi-Wan, but not Luke? As I mention in the book's introduction, these questions are multifaceted. Let's go deeper into questions of names and authenticity.
As we look at this interaction, I'll treat droids as computers. And so we can ask questions like “How does a computer identify a human?” This is one of several crucial types of authentication. We can also ask how a human identifies a computer, or one computer identifies another. Star Wars is full of problems that stem from challenges with how humans identify other humans. In the prequels, why don't the members of the Jedi Council realize that the Chancellor is also the Sith Lord Darth Sidious?
Authentic means something is “the genuine article” or “the real thing.” R2-D2 only wants to play the video for the real, authentic Obi-Wan, not anyone who walks up and asks for it. To do that, we need identifiers and authenticators. Spoofing threats are violations of authenticity; you get someone or something that is not what you're expecting. The Death Star fails to authenticate R2-D2 when he plugs in, a common flaw in the world of Star Wars. In our world, spoofed authentication codes are a common problem: we call them stolen ...
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