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It sounds like an excellent idea to me. And you get the added bonus of
encryption. Nice thinking, Brett.

> Why don't you issue certificates to each user, that have a fixed life
> span,
> say a week (or day or a few hours), and avoid the password thing
> altogether?

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Radu "Daemon" Obada,
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Bucharest