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21 Apr 20 20:39, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 WV>>> I was wondering about packet passwords, are they case
 WV>>> insensitive or not?

 AI>> In all my experience packet, areafix and filefix passwords have
 AI>> been case insensitive.

I remember that we always used uppercase packet passwords. I assumed that
passwords are case insensitive, but I think I never tried to use lowercase in
the config.

 WV> Packet and areafix passwords are case insensitive in FMail. But
 WV> according to Nick there are tossers that are not...

Crashmail and Squish use stricmp() for the packet passwords -> case
insensitive.

How does stricmp compare strings with high ascii characters?

 AI>> It has always been my hope that no one will write a tosser with
 AI>> case sensitive passwords!

 WV> What's the problem? You can always configure the case sensitive tosser
 WV> with an all uppercase (or lowercase) password to communicate with a
 WV> case insensitive tosser.

Right, uppercase passwords should work with every tosser.

 WV> And that's what I'm trying to find out, if there could be a problem if
 WV> I change FMails behaviour. I'm not seeing it, but I can't think of
 WV> everything. ;)

I would say in theory there should be less problems, if FMail were able to
send mixed case passwords.

Maybe we should use hex notation for the passwords, so all 255 characters can
be used for better security ;).


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