Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:44:39 -0400 | From | The SethMeister <> | Subject | Passwords & telnet/ftp |
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This is a bit off-topic, so skip it if you only want LINUX KERNEL stuff,
I was thinking of the way passwords are transmitted with telnet and ftp, and was wondering whay passwords are not first encypted at the client side then sent over to the server side, then checked against the shadow/passwd file. Is it because this introduces some dependence on what encryption algorithm is used on the server side? Or is this already being done? I thought that password were UUencoded then sent over the network. Is this true?
_S
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