From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 14 20:47:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA07E37B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA05400; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:41:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAKBaWzk; Wed Mar 14 21:41:29 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA01583; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:46:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103150446.VAA01583@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd To: billf@mu.org (Bill Fumerola) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 04:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis) In-Reply-To: <20010314210935.Y31752@elvis.mu.org> from "Bill Fumerola" at Mar 14, 2001 09:09:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I disagree it is blindly obvious. It wasn't to some I've talked to. > > We've ended up associating a "security nature" to MD5. Thus when people > > see that name, they make assumptions. > > Misconception on security topics by some isn't a reason to limit > functionality in our system. Weren't you one of those guys who advocated disabling telnetd, rlogind, rcmd, etc., "proactively"? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message