Passwords and salts

[Calvin Hayden]

>From article <1974 at syma.sussex.ac.uk>, by andy at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews):
> From article <85606 at linus.UUCP>, by ccel at chance.uucp (CCEL):
>> To be responsible, I would be reluctant to distribute the source to
>> anyone who is NOT a system administrator on their machine.
> 
> Hmm, so how do you propose to check this? Will you believe anyone who just
> says "I am a system administrator" in their message?
> 
Good point.  If <85606 at linus.UUCP> is set on doing this then the least he
can do is to only send to a root (or superuser equivalent) address.  Still
doesn't insure true security, and that superuser may abuse this on some other
system, it not now then later.  I also agree with an earlier posting - that
this is a fairly trivial program to write.

Cal