From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:38:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0902050938v6be2c153q5d41fd3743c72151@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20915.1233832787@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu>
Even if venti scores are completely unguessable,
using them as an authentication mechanism
is a mistake, because you can't change them.
It would be like having a fixed, unchangeable password
assigned to your account: once the password leaked
out into the world, one way or another, you'd have
no way to stop anyone on the internet from masquerading
as you or telling the password to others.
http://www.google.com/search?q="09+f9"
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 11:56 [9fans] Sources Gone? Gregory Pavelcak
2009-01-23 14:15 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-23 14:54 ` lucio
2009-01-23 15:09 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:59 ` Uriel
2009-01-27 23:32 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-28 0:58 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-01-28 5:06 ` Uriel
2009-01-28 11:46 ` Iruata Souza
2009-01-28 12:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-28 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 12:12 ` Uriel
2009-01-29 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 16:45 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:15 ` ron minnich
2009-01-29 16:34 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:30 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 17:18 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 17:39 ` gas
2009-01-29 21:09 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 21:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 23:05 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 23:49 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-30 0:28 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-30 4:46 ` [9fans] Venti and version control (Was: Sources Gone?) lucio
2009-01-30 5:18 ` [9fans] Sources Gone? lucio
2009-01-31 13:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-01-31 18:12 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-31 18:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-02-02 22:33 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 22:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 23:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 23:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 10:04 ` Richard Miller
2009-02-03 4:23 ` lucio
2009-02-03 5:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 5:47 ` lucio
2009-02-03 12:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 13:38 ` roger peppe
2009-02-03 14:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:13 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-03 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:51 ` roger peppe
2009-02-03 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 17:30 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-02-05 1:24 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-03 17:42 ` lucio
2009-02-03 17:40 ` lucio
2009-02-03 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-04 8:40 ` sqweek
2009-02-04 16:40 ` [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?] Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-02-04 17:10 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-02-04 17:49 ` hiro
2009-02-05 11:19 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-02-05 17:38 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-02-05 17:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-05 18:08 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-05 18:22 ` Micah Stetson
2009-02-05 18:29 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-05 18:31 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-05 18:32 ` hiro
2009-01-30 4:25 ` [9fans] Sources Gone? lucio
2009-01-29 22:33 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 22:58 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 23:06 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 12:13 ` kokamoto
2009-01-27 23:11 ` Patrick Kristiansen
2009-01-28 0:11 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-28 5:55 ` lucio
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