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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:19:12 +0000
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_opie pam_opie.c 
Message-ID:  <200201191419.g0JEJDt21531@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020119110253.GC7683@nagual.pp.ru> ; from "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>  "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:02:54 %2B0300."
References:  <20020119110253.GC7683@nagual.pp.ru> 

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> > > I object to this. The better way is to produce fake but (semi-) constant
> > > challenge.
> > 
> > It is impossible.
> > 
> > 1) How do you plan to identify intruder to keep choosed semi-constance for
> > him?
> > 
> 
> I.e. those fake promts is typical fake security example which gains no 
> real security but problems.

An attacker can now tell the difference between a real UID and one which
does not exist.

M
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