Re: Password camouflage in SSH, version 1

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 10/12/05 

Date: 12 Oct 2005 15:49:33 -0400

>>>>> "ST" == Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> writes:

    ST> It so happens that _most_ servers are written in
    ST> C and hence treat NULs as end-of-string unless painstakingly told
    ST> not to, but that behaviour isn't mandated by the standard (in fact
    ST> strictly speaking you could probably argue that it's a _violation_
    ST> of the standard).

Not disagreeing with anything, just commenting: actually, I don't see it
as a violation of the standard -- such a client is simply sending the
wrong password, and hoping the server is similarly buggy. :) 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net

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