Where would you store the plain text passwords?

Andy

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Murat Bicer wrote:

>You can use stunnel and keep using plain test passwords.
>In which case you need to have an ssl certificate. Either you have to 
>buy it or you take the risk of having a man in the middle attack.
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>You can use also TLS which will require a certificate as well.
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>Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
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>>Does anyone on this list have a safe way of providing kerberos
>>authentication?
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>>I've thought of a couple of things:
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>>- storing passwords plain
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>>Obviously not a solution one would strive for, but there may be safe ways
>>to do this - retreiving password through an encrypted channel, forced
>>commands, etc etc
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>>- symmetric encryption, using private key owned by imap server /
>>  user
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>>Well, the obvious problem here is that the key can get compromized.
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>>Andy
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Andreas Aardal Hanssen


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