Subj : Pssword ord ord case ins
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Apr 25 2020 23:42:28

  Re: Pssword ord ord case ins
  By: Alan Ianson to Sean Dennis on Sat Apr 25 2020 10:38 pm

 > Hello Sean,
 >
 >  AI>> If we had a reliable/secure session we wouldn't need packet
 >  AI>> passwords or inbound directories randomly placed around the file
 >  AI>> system.
 >
 >  SD> That's what a session password is for.
 >
 > I was talking about binkps over TLS. In that case we wouldn't need a session
 > password either since we are relying on the TLS handshake.

The way were using TLS with BINKPS, it provides privacy (secrecy), but not authentication. We still rely on the session passwords for authentication.

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