On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:01:08PM -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
: Hashed passwords are not necessarily more secure than plaintext ones... It
: still boils down to protecting the file the passwords are stored in. If a
: person gets root access on your e-mail server, no password encryption
: scheme is going to save you.
Right on.. However, if you lock your server down properly, you won't
experience intrusion from the network side, minimizing your risk.
I keep telling people that security is never an absolute thing. You just
manage the level of risk.
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