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RE: Protecting RedBoot in the field
- From: Jay Foster <jay at systech dot com>
- To: 'Andrew Lunn' <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>, Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:06:10 -0800
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Protecting RedBoot in the field
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew.lunn@ascom.ch]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:18 AM
To: Gary Thomas
Cc: eCos Disuss
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Protecting RedBoot in the field
> That said, I think a password (stored in 'fconfig') would be a
> great addition.
I wondered about encrypting the passwd so its not plain text. But does
that get is into US export regulation problems? Is crypt(3) still
under restrictions? Can anybody suggest an alternative?
Andrew
You could just store it as plain text, or if you must disguise the password,
you could use base64 encoding. I'm concerned with code bloat in RedBoot
(it's already twice the size I would like).
Jay Foster
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