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Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:51:45 GMT
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:26:35PM +0000, Fredrik Glöckner wrote:
I just need a function which does the authentication automatically.
Ah, well, that's what my Perl manuals are for!

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 yet, have it verify my GPG signature...  maybe I'll do that :)

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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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