Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:26:30 +0200 (EET) From: "Radu-Mihail Obada" <radu@fmi.unibuc.ro> To: "Andrew Kenneth Milton" <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: s/key authentication for Apache on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <33200.193.226.51.11.1071163590.squirrel@fmi.unibuc.ro> In-Reply-To: <20031211073336.GO57995@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031210115335.04c2fc50@localhost><20031210093927.70c87960 .amonk@gnutec.com><6.0.0.22.2.20031210124332.04e94ac0@localhost><16343 .33321.632599.190251@oscar.buszard-welcher.com><6.0.0.22.2.20031210173 916.04f57be8@localhost> <3FD7C240.4030005@tenebras.com><6.0.0.22.2.20031210193940.04f82c20@loc alhost> <20031211073336.GO57995@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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It sounds like an excellent idea to me. And you get the added bonus of encryption. Nice thinking, Brett. > Why don't you issue certificates to each user, that have a fixed life > span, > say a week (or day or a few hours), and avoid the password thing > altogether? -- Radu "Daemon" Obada, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest
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