Re: Passwords

From: netwrkx (netwrkx@myeastern.com)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 23:29:01 GMT-3


I believe this is somewhat revelant, from the security perspective - how
does one pass a pre-shared key for IPSEC,

-TV

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay@west.net>
To: "Joseph D. Phillips" <jphillips@ufcwdrugtrust.org>
Cc: "Group Study (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Passwords

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
>
> > I have been told by vendors that SSNs can be faxed and still be secure
enough for HIPAA.
> >
> > If e-mailing a non-clear-text image of a password is the practical
equivalent, I would rather do that.
>
> And this relates to the CCIE lab how?
>
> > I do notice that many web sites now make you repeat the characters you
see embedded in images, before you can navigate further into the web sites.
> >
> > I'm assuming that's how they make sure it's a human being looking at the
web page, and not some mechanical device sniffing information as the page is
downloaded.
>
> Yes. Google "Turing test".
>
> Others are saving a .gif or .png of the text of their email address for
> use in web pages to brevent harvesting by spammers.
>
> Not really relevant to the CCIE lab, though. There are other fora that
> should provide better answers to you and less noise for the rest of us.
:-)
>
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