From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/smtpd password authentication
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:02:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071216180213.32FA61E8C5C@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b86c8aeb9a11cf52d1f65271939f9f6e@quanstro.net>
> even over tls, it seems inconvinent to use two different passwords
> (really the password and secret) for sending and downloading email.
it's certainly a bug if imap or smtpd or anything else expects
a password that is not the inferno/pop secret.
however, sending that password in plain text is no more
secure than sending the plan 9 password in plain text.
either way you should be using tls and not accept *any*
passwords sent over an unencrypted connection.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-16 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-15 0:09 erik quanstrom
2007-12-15 0:16 ` Steve Simon
2007-12-15 0:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-16 18:02 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2007-12-16 23:16 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-17 16:54 ` Jonathan D. Proulx
2007-12-17 17:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-17 18:33 ` Jonathan D. Proulx
2007-12-17 19:40 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-12-17 17:52 ` Russ Cox
2007-12-17 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-12-17 21:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-12-17 21:10 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-17 23:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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