Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:42:02 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6] [RFC] Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock) support V6 |
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David Brownell wrote: > I thought the MMC vendors expected to see the actual user-typed > password get SHA1-hashed into a value which would take up the whole > buffer? In general that's a good idea, since it promotes use of > longer passphrases (more information) over short ones (easy2crack). >
This sounds like policy though, so it is something user space should concern itself with. We should just provide the infrastructure.
Rgds
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