Firewalls: Re: POP Access Thru router

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Subject:	Re: POP Access Thru router
From:	Frederick M Avolio <avolio @ trusted . com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:31:03 -0500
To:	"Christopher L. Werner" <cwerner @ fh . us . bosch . com>, firewalls @ greatcircle . com

At 06:31 PM 11/9/95 -0500, Christopher L. Werner wrote:
>
>The newest version of qpopper from Qualcomm 2.1.4 now supports APOP which
>encrypts the users password on the client, passes it to the server, and
>it is decrypted on your side of the firewall.

No, it uses MD5 and some random  data to get MD5 hashed with your password.
THe random of data and the MD5 hash is sent over the link.  THe password --
encrypted or otherwise -- is never sent.

F

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