Re: Wanted: the worst strings in Gnome

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <deaddog deaddog org>]

On 2003-06-08(Sun) 19:18:56 +0200, Ole Laursen wrote:
> > >   "IM Preedit style"
> > >   "<big>S/Key Challenge Response</big>"
> > I'd be very surprised if there were a way to express these two
> > (without loosing their meaning) in a way that does not include
> > these exact words (except possibly for IM <-> input method).
> 
> Maybe, maybe not. But in the past, I didn't understand no. 1 and I
> still don't understand no. 2. Cryptic strings are best accompanied by
> a comment in the code.

Crypto stuff is always not that easy to grasp. You can go to

http://www.cs.brown.edu/system/net_remote/skey/

for a nice introduction on what S/KEY is. And I wonder if these strings
can be replaced too.

Abel


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