On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, russm wrote:
that's ridiculous - if you can't secure your server enough to protect the user passwords then you can't secure it enough to protect the content protected by those passwords, and you're already up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
The "put all the eggs in one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET" philosophy?
As opposed to the "leave your eggs lying all around the place and hope that nobody comes along and picks them up" philosophy? Well yes, I guess so...
The crypto community soundly rejected Auth-Digest.
I am extremely willing to be educated here - could you provide a reference or 2? I'm basing what I say on what I believe to be sound knowledge and if I'm wrong I'd like to know about it.
Insulting someone's administration skills doesn't change that, and it doesn't make Digest look any better.
Perhaps I should have been clearer - "You" was not any specific person, it was a generic administrator of some system. No insult was intended to anyone on this list.
Russell
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