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Re: Passwords and Secure SSO
From: Alan Amesbury <amesbury () OITSEC UMN EDU>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:15:35 -0600
Cal Frye wrote:
Sounds machine-specific. So when the user goes out to an Internet cafe somewhere he suddenly can't login to his Amazon.com account? Or do I misunderstand...
Actually, it *looks* machine-specific, too. I tried downloading the "Internet Explorer" version, but was prompted with some sort of .EXE file. I guess that won't work very well with IE for Mac. Fortunately, I found the following platform-agnostic variant. :-) ---------- Perl hack ---------- #!/usr/bin/perl -wT # Gotta have SHA1 use Digest::SHA1 qw(sha1_base64); # Some variables my ($password, $domain); my $result; print "Password: "; chop($password = <STDIN>); print "Domain: "; chop($domain = <STDIN>); $result = sha1_base64($password . $domain); printf "Password: %s\n", substr($result,0,16); -------- End Perl hack -------- -- Alan Amesbury OITSEC University of Minnesota ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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- Re: Passwords and Secure SSO Cal Frye (Dec 21)
- Re: Passwords and Secure SSO Alan Amesbury (Dec 21)