Re: PuTTy and Insecurely Stored Passwords

From: William Ahern (william@25thandClement.com)
Date: 01/29/03


From: William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:00:58 -0800

K C <k36s@gosympatico.ca> wrote:
> Any news, status of fix(es) re: 'SSH2 Clients Insecurely Store
> Passwords (AbsoluteTelnet, SecureCRT, Entunnel, SecureFx, and PuTTY)'
> [1] ??
>
> 1 - http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5DP0K2K8VI.html

is there a _secure_ way to store passwords? is there a new
zero-zero-knowledge protocol or something?



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