Subj : Packet password case insensitive or not?
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Oli
Date : Wed Apr 22 2020 10:14 am

21 Apr 20 20:39, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

WV>>> I was wondering about packet passwords, are they case
WV>>> insensitive or not?

AI>> In all my experience packet, areafix and filefix passwords have
AI>> been case insensitive.

I remember that we always used uppercase packet passwords. I assumed that
passwords are case insensitive, but I think I never tried to use lowercase in
the config.

WV> Packet and areafix passwords are case insensitive in FMail. But
WV> according to Nick there are tossers that are not...

Crashmail and Squish use stricmp() for the packet passwords -> case
insensitive.

How does stricmp compare strings with high ascii characters?

AI>> It has always been my hope that no one will write a tosser with
AI>> case sensitive passwords!

WV> What's the problem? You can always configure the case sensitive tosser
WV> with an all uppercase (or lowercase) password to communicate with a
WV> case insensitive tosser.

Right, uppercase passwords should work with every tosser.

WV> And that's what I'm trying to find out, if there could be a problem if
WV> I change FMails behaviour. I'm not seeing it, but I can't think of
WV> everything. ;)

I would say in theory there should be less problems, if FMail were able to send
mixed case passwords.

Maybe we should use hex notation for the passwords, so all 255 characters can
be used for better security ;).



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