It's not possible to allow non-OPIE logins only from trusted networks

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Mar 15 10:35:12 UTC 2011


RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> IIRC there is/was a weakness in FreeBSD's OPIE implementation in that
> it's susceptible to rainbow table attacks - I think part of the hash
> is discarded.

Can you provide more details?

AFAIK, OPIE was written to be 100% compatible with S/Key, so any
weakness in OPIE is a design flaw in S/Key which cannot be corrected.

DES
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