Hi mark.

01 May 20 14:14:08, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 ml>>>> like 8 character passwords aren't already easily brute forced,
 ml>>>> eh?

 MvdV>>> The session password in binkd is not limited to 8 characters.
 MvdV>>> I do not know what the limit is or if there is a limit, but a
 MvdV>>> test with 24 characters passed. And BTW it is case sensitive.

 BP>> where have Mark being missinformated ? :)

 ml> i wasn't misinformed... i was thinking about mailers that validate
 ml> inbound packet passwords with the session password based on
 ml> traditional FTN methods... packets have max eight characters for
 ml> passwords so there we are...

The best way is to set the same pkt and session password. Even if it is
possible define all these seperately in binkd.

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'Tommi

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