Subj : src/sbbs3/useredit.cpp
To   : deon
From : echicken
Date : Mon Feb 27 2023 14:44:25

  Re: src/sbbs3/useredit.cpp
  By: deon to Digital Man on Mon Feb 27 2023 20:08:02

 de> So you said "We'd have to have a way to decrypt an encrypted password".

 de> My question, is why do you need to decrypt it?

IIRC the reason is that Synchronet supports many protocols, each with different authentication mechanisms. We need the client to send us something that can be compared to what we have on file. It's not possible to do this across the board if we don't have the plain password to start from.

So we either resort to the lowest common denominator, or we store the encrypted password in many permutations per user, or we require different passwords for different services.
  
---  
echicken   
electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com
---
 þ Synchronet þ electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

.