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David Kessens
david at IPRG.nokia.com
Wed Jan 30 00:08:46 CET 2002
Larry, On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:31:30PM -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote: > > As an alternative to deprecating MAIL-FROM, have you considered sending > a response to updates with a random cookie in it and requiring a confirmation > message with the cookie? I like this suggestion. > In regards to the MD5 fingerprint, would this be a straight MD5 hash, or > something like the FreeBSD MD5-based password hash (which I believe supports > passwords longer than 8 chars)? Also, would the hash continue to be openly published? > It would seem you would still have to deal with potential dictionary attacks. > I understand the Perl-based RIPE server would use a "*" in place of > the actual crypt-pw and I've been considering adding support for this in IRRd. In my ISI/RPSL/6bone version of the perl server (=not the official RIPE version of the perl software) the crypt-pw is indeed not shown upon query or in the downloadable database files. I hope this helps, David K. ---
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