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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 04:46:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        billf@mu.org (Bill Fumerola)
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis)
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd
Message-ID:  <200103150446.VAA01583@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010314210935.Y31752@elvis.mu.org> from "Bill Fumerola" at Mar 14, 2001 09:09:35 PM

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> > I disagree it is blindly obvious.  It wasn't to some I've talked to.
> > We've ended up associating a "security nature" to MD5.  Thus when people
> > see that name, they make assumptions.
> 
> Misconception on security topics by some isn't a reason to limit
> functionality in our system.

Weren't you one of those guys who advocated disabling telnetd,
rlogind, rcmd, etc., "proactively"?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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