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  Re: Packet password case insensitive or not?
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to All on Tue Apr 21 2020 01:58 pm

 > Hi All,
 >
 > I was wondering about packet passwords, are they case insensitive or not?
 >
 > FMail has always forced them to uppercase on entry in the configuration, and
 > does a case insensitive compare on the password contained in arrived packet
 > files.
 >
 > fts-0001.016 just says this about the password:
 >
 >   password   (some impls)
 >        eight bytes
 >        null padded
 >
 > "bytes": So it could be anything, including "high ascii".
 >
 > When I look at the packets I receive, there are some with lower or even
 > mixed case passwords.
 > (So it's a good thing FMail does a case insensitive compare, otherwise it
 > wouldn't match against the configured uppercase password)

SBBSecho has always treated packet passwords case-INsensitively. It is
unfortuate that so many of the fido specifications were so badly written to
begin with and the resulting ambiguities and contradictions have never been
sufficiently addressed by the FTSC. Luckily, with password-protected mail
sessions the norm these days, packet passwords are kind of moot and probably
should just be deprecated. Doubt that'll happen though.

                                            digital man

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