Authentication Problem

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 00:15:28 EET 2018


On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> Nice to get to hear this. However, the password is not stored in clear text
> here. How then does it work?

By using a password derivative (see 3.9 on the document I just
referred to).  Sorry, my memory this scheme is antiquated.  However,
as the document points out, it still need to be protected as if
it was plaintext because knowledge of the contents will give access.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>


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