Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene M. Kim" <gene@nttlabs.com> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, mark@grondar.za, jlemon@americantv.com Subject: Re: Security and other facilities at WC CDROM - the plan. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809241916270.9148-100000@seera.nttlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809241628030.249-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Alex wrote:
| Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
| From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
| To: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>
| Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>,
committers@FreeBSD.ORG,
mark@grondar.za,
jlemon@americantv.com
| Subject: Re: Security and other facilities at WC CDROM - the plan.
|
| On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Bill Paul wrote:
| [..]
| > Of course, one limitation is that if you use up all your one time
| > passwords before you return home, you'll be stuck unless you can find
| > an s/key key generator program somewhere.
|
| Nah, I'm sure with the "magic" of GNU-Win32, you could compile key(1) as a
| Windows binary, stuff that on a web site somewhere and grab it whenever
| you're on a strange Windows box. Sure beats actually carrying around your
| passwords.
Well, if you really don't trust the Win95 machine, it is not a good idea
to give your secret password even to your home-grown program running on
it. It is said that there are several Win95 programs that hide
themselves and capture *all* keystrokes from the keyboard into a secret
file. :-p
|
| > And somebody could steal your wallet and your password sheet. :)
|
| - alex
|
Eugene
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