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Re: Cross-platform authentication




On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:

Michael Hall wrote:

For my application I was hoping for something more secure but I can
adapt what I have and it should work. KeyStore access usually unless
you intentionally simplify it allows for both a password for the file
and each alias. So while I would hope for something more secure than
default this actually weakens it. Oh well.

I don't see how using a KeyStore would necessarily weaken anything.

Not using a keystore. You can have a strong crypto password. But to simplify it to a single password is less secure than a file password + a unique password per alias. More all your eggs in one basket. Figure out the one password and you have the works. It could be a lame single password, easily susceptible to dictionary attack, then the strong crypto doesn't necessarily matter, etc.



Mike Hall mikehall at spacestar dot net http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative



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