On Thursday, December 16, 2004, Brad Greenlee wrote: > Sorry, forgot to mention that I worked under the assumption that if I > used any modules, they had to be part of the standard Perl distribution. > The only thing that's really lacking compared to the python version is > some kind of digest algorithm to avoid sending the password over the wire. There is crypt(). However, just sending the hash of the password instead of the pass itself doesn't change anything, as knowing the hash is then just as good as knowing the pass. And having the server send a challenge first would not exactly shorten the code I guess :)
- Karsten
