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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by k_sze on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:06PM (#21708550)
What does “DBJ” stand for?
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by inferiorhuman on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:11PM (#21708600)
Daniel Bernstein, author of qmail, djbdns, and daemontools among others.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by k_sze on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:53PM (#21709274)
And where does that auth-info-via-file-handle come from? I did a bit of duckduckgoing and couldn’t spot anything about that.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by simtel20 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:18PM (#21709946)
The qmail source code has this convention.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by k_sze on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:14AM (#21710155)
Thanks!
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by zdw on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:44AM (#21712602)
Some call the concept "Bernstein Chaining": http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/taoup/html/ch06s06.html
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by kick on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:07PM (#21709008)
That's DJB. DBJs is a Javascript database thing. There is possible ambiguity here.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by inferiorhuman on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:30AM (#21710202)
Fair point. I associate DJB with security and coding best practices, Javascript not so much. I can only hope the comment I replied to meant DJB the person.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by kick on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:52AM (#21710274)
I hope so too.
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by pnako on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:07PM (#21709635)
DJ Bernstein, famous for remixing sendmail and similar hits in the 90s
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Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD by gautamcgoel on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:09PM (#21708581)
I think he means Daniel Bernstein, a prominent cryptographer and coder.
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