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  15     <B>Robin Burchell</B>
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  19     <I>Sat Jun  9 02:24:00 PDT 2007</I>
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  34 <PRE>That doesn't fix NS LINK, and it also doesn't fix protocols like
  35 RFC1459 that don't support any such feature.
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  37 It's further problematic when you have a large network guesting a lot
  38 of people simultaneously, as those are the kind of conditions where it
  39 becomes guessable.
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  41 Thanks for the suggestion, though :)
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  43 On 6/9/07, ongeboren &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">xxx.coder at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
  44 &gt;<i> Then set a jupe for guest* or whatever pattern you use for those
  45 </I>&gt;<i> nicknames so that no user can change its nickname to that via /nick.
  46 </I>&gt;<i>
  47 </I>&gt;<i> On 6/8/07, Robin Burchell &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">surreal.w00t at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
  48 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; Just as a follow up, the process for generating random nicks is
  49 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; weakened by only using rand() the first time - if that's in use, the
  50 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; nicks will be predictable in a series, meaning a malicious user can
  51 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; register or link the next N nicks that will pop up and splat the same
  52 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; person repeatedly.
  53 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  54 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; Not nice.
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  62 </I>&gt;<i> Evlogi Petrov - <A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">ongeboren at UniBG</A>
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