Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack

[Albert-Lunde () nwu edu (Albert Lunde)]

> My solution was to decouple the POP passwords from the account
> passwords by having a separate POP password file.
>
> However, isn't there a safer way of sending passwords over the network?

There's the APOP extension which uses MD5 hashes, and I think another
which allows use of any IMAP autorization extension, plus there is
some sort of kerberized pop. (I think commercial Eudora supports
APOP and kerberos.)

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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde () nwu edu