Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:17:46 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.4th loader.conf.5 support.4th Message-ID: <99Nov29.091039est.40342@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911281645000.1550-100000@green.dyndns.org> References: <199911241756.JAA05661@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911281645000.1550-100000@green.dyndns.org>
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On 1999-Nov-29 08:46:13 +1100, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: >On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >> dcs 1999/11/24 09:56:41 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/boot/forth loader.4th loader.conf.5 support.4th >> Log: >> Add silly password feature. If people want to depend on a flawed >> security measures, so be it. It costs us almost nothing. > >Can you not find a decent Forth cryptographic hashing function? It >would make things a lot less "silly". I suspect Daniel's comment is more related to the fact that anyone with physical access to the machine can get around anything less than an encrypted filesystem (which we don't support generically). If we really wanted to, it would be trivial to implement MD5 in FORTH. It would be even easier to add a C MD5 library to ficl. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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