Re: Encrpted Passwords

Philipp Kern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.bopm
Organization philkern.de
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:27, Wayne wrote:
> The reason i ask is my network suffered a security leak somewhere and
> a bopm password was discovered and used to oper up on my network.  If
> i am able to encrypt the password like i do with unreal it would help
> me greatly.

You need to fix the leak.
Think. If the password is encrypted, how would bopm be able to decrypt
it?
Unreal only needs to check if the password supplied is encrypted the
same as the saved.

Bye,
phil
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Philipp Kern <[email protected]>
Homepage: http://www.philkern.de - ICQ#: 66737654
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