Re: [PATCH] print warning when adding a key that contains non-ASCII characters

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 11/03/2009 11:08 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>> I don't think this in good idea. Information that user entered non-ASCII
>> character is useful for attacker, why display it to terminal?
>> (That problem exist in all password entry dialogs - why cryptsetup should
>> be special here?)
> 
> It's only displayed if you add a new password. I doubt you usually
> do that if someone's looking at your screen. He could just look at
> your keyboard while you are typing as well then, right? :-)

No. Output can be logged (installer debug output for example).
If the warning is not there, I know that user have only ascii chars
in password.

Milan
--
mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx
_______________________________________________
dm-crypt mailing list
dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx
http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt

[Index of Archives]     [Device Mapper Devel]     [Fedora Desktop]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux