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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:49:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
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> > The simplest way around this is for the server to accept a message,
> > then send a quick confirmation e-mail to the poster listed in the
> > From: header. This e-mail contains a special URL which will
> > authenticate or "release" the message into the pool of active
> > messages. Click that URL, then click "Post It" and you're all set.
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> Could someone please tell me if they've programmed a script which does
> this automatically? Perl would be preferred. Without an
> automatication of this process, LUGNET is completely useless for me.
> The script could be triggered by the incoming authentication request.
If you would have automated that process, that would make you vulenerable to
identity theft. If someone would forge your ID the message will be accepted
by a script that is not able to verify if you really wrote that message...
-Frank
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| (...) Of course it could verify that I wrote the message. I could add a seemingly random hash function output to the signature of my messages, or to some arbitrary "X-" header. Finding the function that generated the "random" code would require (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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