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Subject: Re: [9fans] ssh host key
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:08:58 -0400
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The NVRAM secstore password is limited to 14 bytes; see Nvrsafe in
<authsrv.h>.

The other passwords are DES-encrypted into 7-byte keys for storage in
NVRAM.  See libauthsrv/passtokey.c for details.