Subj : FTS-1027 Section 1.7 CRAM-MD5 Frame Exchange Example
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Tue Apr 30 2024 05:01 pm

 Re: FTS-1027 Section 1.7 CRAM-MD5 Frame Exchange Example
 By: Rob Swindell to Michiel van der Vlist on Mon Apr 29 2024 12:51 pm

>   Re: FTS-1027 Section 1.7 CRAM-MD5 Frame Exchange Example
>   By: Michiel van der Vlist to Jason Brady on Sun Apr 28 2024 08:58 am
>
>  > Hello Jason,
>  >
>  > On Saturday April 27 2024 13:11, you wrote to deon:
>  >
>  >  JB> Regarding FTS-1027 section 1.7, can the example be updated, or is it
>  >  JB> illustrative only? If I may make a suggestion, I would use a passwor
>  >  JB> more in line with one assigned by an NC (such as "BOBBY123")
>  >
>  > "BOBBY123" is NOT a password I would use or a type of password that I wou
>  > encourage other Fidonet collegues to use. So I strongly advise against us
>  > it as an example in an FTSC documentation.
>
> Why burn a "good password" in a standards document? It's common practice to
> bad passwords as example source material for hashes and digests in standards
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1321
> --
>                                             digital man (rob)
>
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Agreed.  A sample should be something like yourpassword

  xxcarol
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