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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: cancel locks
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:28:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877kta7mt3.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluhesf634r.fsf@dhcp128.extundo.com> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2001 20:06:12 +0100")

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> For cancel locks to serve any purpose, doesn't the password need to be
> non-guessable?

Yes, the posting agent should create some random "password" and use
it.  It doesn't need to be presented to the user at all.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-01 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-31 17:45 Simon Josefsson
2001-10-31 18:11 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-10-31 19:06   ` Simon Josefsson
2001-11-01  0:13     ` Robin S. Socha
2001-11-01 11:28     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-11-01  8:23 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-01 11:34   ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 11:59     ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-01 16:34       ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-01 17:21         ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-01 17:41         ` Jesper Harder
2001-11-01 17:23           ` Simon Josefsson
2001-11-01 18:47             ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-01 21:09               ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-01 21:10             ` Florian Weimer

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