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     Re: Re: Packet password case insensitive or not?   
     By: Wilfred van Velzen to Rob Swindell on Wed Apr 22 2020 09:52 am   
      
    > Hi Rob,   
    >   
    > On 2020-04-21 16:12:07, you wrote to me:   
    >   
    >  RS> SBBSecho has always treated packet passwords case-INsensitively. It is   
    >  RS> unfortuate that so many of the fido specifications were so badly   
    >  RS> written to begin with and the resulting ambiguities and contradictions   
    >  RS> have never been sufficiently addressed by the FTSC.   
    >   
    > There is no ambiguity for packet password case sensitivity. It's just not   
    > specified, so anything goes...   
      
   Yeah, that's the definition of ambiguity.   
      
    >  RS> Luckily, with password-protected mail sessions the norm these days,   
    >  RS> packet passwords are kind of moot and probably should just be   
    >  RS> deprecated. Doubt that'll happen though.   
    >   
    > I don't agree here. Packet passwords provide an extra layer of security. For   
    > instance without it, anyone can drop a .pkt file in your insecure inbound   
    > with a falsified source address and echomail in it. If you process .pkt   
    > files from your inbound automatically, it will get tossed, if there is no   
    > packet password agreeded upon for the falsified source...   
      
   SBBSecho will not import echomail from an insecure inbound directory.   
      
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