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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:19:05 GMT
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:59:19PM +0000, Matthew Miller wrote:
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
The funny thing is that the password doesn't really protect anything other
than the rating system and one's collection ... the last time I checked I
could post under someone else's username :-P
We'll see how many people find it funny nine months from now.

I don't find it funny; I'm just glad it hasn't been a problem.

It'd be nice to hack in some sort of GPG-based authentication system....

hmmm... now there's a thought....  how would that work though?  make a
private/public key pair for each member, and store the public key in the
cookie?  but what would stop someone from sniffing and stealing the cookie?
auth over ssl?

hmmm....  interesting idea, but I can't think (this sec) of how to make
it work... anyone else?

Dan



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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) Oh, I was thinking of something newsreader-based. It'd be more of a pain for the web interface. Unless someone wants to hack something into Mozilla. :) Once upon a time, Verisign was making a big deal over personal certificates. Guess they (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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