ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5068

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:47:21 +0100

This is what gets me, personally: I don't think I've ever gotten a misbegotten challenge, but the idea that someone, at some point, thought that spammers would do anythingbutuse stolen email addresses just blows my mind. Didn't the people who thought up this scheme have any experience with spam, or were they simply counting on their way of doing things to catch on so completely nobody would mind getting flooded with random challenges? Rick Moen's website lists more things wrong with the notion than this, but this is the flaw that makes me wonder whyanyonewouldevertry this scheme.

(Equal time: C-R is good for things like authenticating a specific person over a public link. (Like a WWII soldier shouting "Thunder! Thunder or Iwillfire on you!" and expecting the correct phrase in response.) If done cryptographically (Alice signs M, sends it to maybe-Bob who can verify her signature, sign it himself, and send it back to verify his idenbreasty.) it could even be useful. None of this has anything to do with spam, of course.)

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