--- In [email protected], "Simon Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No way matey - I have used UNIX distributions where the username / password > was stored in plain text... This is a total red herring, of course. Triple-DES is no more secure than your newspaper cryptogram puzzle if you leave your keys sitting out on your desk. One of the fundamental principles of cryptology is that the weakest point in any cryptosystem is the user. The point is that it is nearly impossible to make the XP design secure without winding up with something like Vista. It's a fundamental flaw. The same is not true of the Unix fundamental design, where insecurities come from sloppiness, and are fixed incrementally as they are discovered. 73 Frank AB2KT
