>there are several generators created in the mid-80s that generate
It's 1995. Passwords (other than one-time) are a dead
technology. Networking rendered passwords obsolete almost
immediately, and when people started connecting untrusted
networks to their trusted networks, it was the final nail in
the coffin. What's amazing is that 10 years after passwords
have ceased to be a viable technology people are still putting
engineering effort into figuring out how to generate "high
quality" passwords that they can then broadcast onto a local
ethernet.
S/key has its disadvantages but for goodness sakes if
we took the effort that people are ploughing into password
vetting and cracking and made S/key aware versions of
ftp, telnet, rlogin, [what else?] and got people to use those
instead, we might actually make some progress towards the
future, rather than continuing to belabor a dead techno-horse.
mjr.
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