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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:02:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        jonathan@graehl.org
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftpd SITE MD5 and "really bad links"
Message-ID:  <200103152102.QAA49281@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLGEJBDMAA.jonathan@graehl.org>
References:  <200103152003.PAA48601@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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In article <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLGEJBDMAA.jonathan@graehl.org> you write:

>A digest of the file would be significantly more useful if the FTP
>server had a site key

Repeat after me: this is not, and is not intended to be, a security
mechanism.

There is already a security mechanism defined for FTP.

-GAWollman

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