[Zope-PTK] Stability rule-of-thumb (fwd)

[Mike Pelletier]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:

> It would be nice if the UUF would also try breaking down the cookies/login
> fields for you. Most of the validators would prefer just being able to
> say yes/no to a username & password combination rather all of them
> needing the intelligence to decode the cookie,basic auth and form data.
> It can be done securely once rather than cut & paste, and validators
> would instantly support new authentication-passing mechanisms.

    The idea is, the Validator may not be looking at a simple
username/password pair.  It may be receiving metrics about your face or
retina or fingerprint.  It may just look at your IP address (low security,
high convenience Intranet?), etc etc.

Mike.

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