From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 22 15:12:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B4937BF6C for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (surry-pool-164.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.164] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA13785; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:13:38 +1000 From: Danny To: "Sean J. Schluntz" , schluntz@timberwolf.workofstone.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about ways to do eMail authintication. Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:20:08 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: schluntz@workofstone.com References: <200006222159.OAA13026@mail.workofstone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00062408211500.00297@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org - Digitial Signatures? - Digital signature does use the hashing technique -Hope that helps On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, schluntz@timberwolf.workofstone.net wrote: > 'scuze the spelling ;) > > I have seen on a number of sites where you enter information on a web site > and then to authinticate that it really was you (like to be added to a > mailing list or to a BBS) it sends you an eMail with a special URL or code > to be emailed back that is some sort of hash that does not get duplicated > across different users. > > Any of you know of a good piece of software to do that? Prefurably free > or open source but commercial will do in a pinch. > > Thanks for the help! > > -Sean > > -------- > Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@workofstone.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message