Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:24:19 -0000 From: "local.freebsd.questions" <freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help with s/key Message-ID: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D4A5@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:42:07 -0000 , wash@wananchi.com (Odhiambo Washington) wrote: > >Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it. >Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should use >it? Depends how you rate security over convenience. I have used it often for FTP accounts. The benefit is that passwords are never re-used and knowledge of a password can't be used to determine future ones. The downside is that people find it a pain to have a sheet of passwords and strike them out one at a time, or use an s/key calculator. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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