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- From: robert.heuman@rose.com (robert heuman)
- Subject: OS/2 Password Protect
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:19:11 GMT
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- Date Entered: 01-25-93 04:14
- Does anyone have any information on how OS/2 Advanced LAN version 3.0
- protects the passwords used on the LAN?
-
- 1. Password used to sign on from the workstation to the
- server(s)-domain?
-
- a. Is it transmitted in the clear? If not is the tranmission
- protection trivial or not?
- b. How is it stored on the domain server, and supplied to other
- servers?
-
- 2. Passwords set up to protect resources on the domain and other
- servers?
-
- a. Are they stored in the clear, or protected?
- b. If protected, how are they protected? - I know I do not enter a
- key, so if encryption is used, it is either with a fixed key that
- is in every copy of the product, or the random number generator is
- used, and I do not know how robust it is... Has its randomness and
- cycle time been tested?
-
- So far I've been unable to obtain answers from IBM. Seems the the
- staff I've dealt with either do not know, or are not willing to let
- security concerned individuals know how good or bad a job they have
- done in this area. I suspect the former, with an unwillingness to
- find out for me. Someone at IBM must know - the problem is finding
- that one individual (if he/she is still there, of course).
-
- Thanks to anyone who can supply information, in advance...
-
- Bob
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