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Re: big word listing

To: Alex de Joode <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: big word listing
From: "Joey Grasty" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 23:07:54 +0000
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Alex sez:

> Is there a "challenge response" type of password/login available
> somewhere ?
> 

Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) has an optional command called 
APOP which sends a string of the form "<process-ID.clock@hostname>".
The POP3 client calculates the MD5 digest of 
 
  <process-ID.clock@hostname>password

and sends it to the server as "APOP username 58349485whatever89583449".

I like it.

Regards,


--
Joey Grasty
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"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is,
of course, in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann

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