[MUD-Dev] TECH: Securing Symetric Encryption.

[Ben Sleek]

On 7/14/05, William Leader <leader at k2wrpg.org> wrote:

> Any encryption experts out there willing to point out a weakness
> that I don't already know about or comment on the severity of the
> weaknesses I do know about?

I'm no security expert, but that solution seems overly complex.
What about generating a MD5 hash with (user pass + time stamp +
common server password) and sending the hash with the user name and
timestamp in clear text.  The server could then compare hashes.
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