On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:44:07PM -0800, Rob email wrote:
> In the examples, uuencode seems to always be used when
> creating a pass phase.
>
> My question: is there any real reason the pass phase
> needs to be uuencoded if losetup will have it piped in
> with the -p option?
Someone else can correct me if wrong, but I think it's
now historical artifact. uuencode used to be used to
create an ascii one time password from some random
data source; you know have to use an external program
to do regular ascii passwords in the old way. (Ben Slusky's
work)
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