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Re: Hiding all copies of your PPP password



On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:

> You can also XOR your ISP password and your login password, put that in a
> file somewhere, and patch /bin/login to XOR it again at login time, and

Shachar, imho, this is a VERY BAD idea. 1/2 of the key (the login) is in
the public domain (hint: email address user name !). No, let's not do
this. 

0.02 Ag.

Peter