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Re: Regal eagle / American cloud

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Regal eagle / American cloud
Date 2020-02-28 22:34 -0800
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 2/28/2020 10:28 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On 29/02/2020 05:33, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 2/28/2020 7:48 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
>>> On 2020-02-29, woodbrian77@gmail.com <woodbrian77@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 5:37:35 PM UTC-6, Chris M. Thomasson 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 2/27/2020 8:19 PM, woodbrian77@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 2:54:28 PM UTC-6, Chris M. 
>>>>>> Thomasson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/30/2019 9:58 AM, woodbrian77@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>                                                      Shalom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can you give me some suggestions on how to improve my
>>>>>>>> repo: https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards
>>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What do you think of recent changes to this file?
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards/blob/master/src/cmw/tiers/cmwA.cc 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and a version from the end of September:
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards/blob/9bc4c2646e7dc6421dfdcd9d1107d544c320a13a/src/cmw/tiers/cmwA.cc 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The number of lines hasn't changed much, but the size of the
>>>>>>>> event loop, the most complicated part of the program, has been
>>>>>>>> reduced by switching from TCP to SCTP.  Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Iirc, you require a user to "register" by sending you an email with
>>>>>>> their password in the clear?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I plan to use Wireguard for encryption so it
>>>>>> could be done after we have that set up.
>>>
>>> sending passwords over mail is highly unsecure. No one does it any more.
>>>>>
>>>>> How are you storing those user passwords on your end? I hope your not
>>>>> storing them in the clear... You can store the HMAC'ed result, keyed
>>>>> with a salt or some random element. Then instead of comparing 
>>>>> passwords
>>>>> in the clear, you can compare hash digests.
>>>>
>>>> OK.  I'm also thinking about this:
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/ewzxk4/no_password_protection_at_all/ 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps I don't need passwords beyond what Wireguard provides.
>>> Hm, no password is something like sending public keys?
>>
>> Very Simple scheme...
>>
>> Password Setup:
>>
>> Use DH to setup temporary secure channel between server and a client.
>>
>> The client encrypts the password using this session and sends the 
>> ciphertext to the server.
>>
>> The server decrypts and hashes the password with a random salt.
>>
>> The secure channel is destroyed.
>>
>> The server stores the digest and the salt.
>>
>>
>> Password Validation:
>>
>> Use DH to setup temporary secure channel between server and a client.
>>
>> The client encrypts the password using this session and sends the 
>> ciphertext to the server.
>>
>> The server decrypts, looks up your account, hashes the password with 
>> the stored random salt.
> 
> NO! Do not send the password to the fucking server, hash on the fucking 
> CLIENT and send the fucking HASH to the fucking server.'

Okay. I was thinking of sending an encrypted password using a DH secure 
channel. We can most certainly hash on the client, then send the digest 
to the server using a secure DH?

> 
> /Flibble
> 

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Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-09 12:54 -0800
  Re: Regal eagle / American cloud woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2020-02-27 20:19 -0800
    Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-02-28 16:50 +0000
      Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 15:34 -0800
    Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 15:37 -0800
      Re: Regal eagle / American cloud woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2020-02-28 16:24 -0800
        Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2020-02-29 03:48 +0000
          Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 21:33 -0800
            Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-02-29 06:28 +0000
              Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 22:34 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2020-02-29 06:51 +0000
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-02-29 07:34 +0000
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 23:40 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 14:46 +0100
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-01 12:59 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 22:47 +0100
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud red floyd <no.spam@its.invalid> - 2020-03-01 22:14 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2020-03-03 08:06 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 13:21 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 13:24 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-03 08:11 +0100
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 01:31 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 01:33 -0800
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                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 23:38 -0800
              Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2020-02-29 06:50 +0000
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 23:32 -0800

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