Confirmation for cached passphrases useful?

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Oct 18 03:09:48 CEST 2010


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On 10/17/2010 5:43 PM, Faramir wrote:
|
|    That may be true. However, remember feeling secure is part of security
| too, so if that feature doesn't break anything, and make people sleep
| better...

Two problems with that theory. The first is that a false sense of
security does more harm than good. The second is that there is no such
thing as a zero-cost change to software. So any proposed change has to
have benefits that outweigh the costs. Of course accurately anticipating
those costs is a whole different category of problems. :)


Doug

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