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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:17:46 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.4th loader.conf.5 support.4th
Message-ID:  <99Nov29.091039est.40342@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911281645000.1550-100000@green.dyndns.org>
References:  <199911241756.JAA05661@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911281645000.1550-100000@green.dyndns.org>

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On 1999-Nov-29 08:46:13 +1100, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
>> dcs         1999/11/24 09:56:41 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/boot/forth       loader.4th loader.conf.5 support.4th 
>>   Log:
>>   Add silly password feature. If people want to depend on a flawed
>>   security measures, so be it. It costs us almost nothing.
>
>Can you not find a decent Forth cryptographic hashing function?  It
>would make things a lot less "silly".

I suspect Daniel's comment is more related to the fact that anyone
with physical access to the machine can get around anything less than
an encrypted filesystem (which we don't support generically).

If we really wanted to, it would be trivial to implement MD5 in FORTH.
It would be even easier to add a C MD5 library to ficl.

Peter


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