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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 22:26:35 GMT
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"Frank Buiting" <frank.buiting@infopulse.nl> writes:
> 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...
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 years of computer effort. And should
someone stumble upon the solution, it would be a simple matter to
generate a new one.
I just need a function which does the authentication automatically.
Ah, well, that's what my Perl manuals are for!
Fredrik
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 | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) I did write such a scripty, and I can email it to you if you want. What I did was just bind it to a key so I can auth a post without starting up a webbrowser. Let me know if you want the script. I do like the idea of the hash sig... or better (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) 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 (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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