Re: ca signon encryption -- MI400

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Subject: Re: [MI400] ca signon encryption
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:23:51 -0700
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Steve Richter wrote:
> How is the client access signon user name and password encrypted
> when sent to the as400.

Dear Steve:

The password isn't sent at all. Instead, it's used as an
encryption/authentication key, applied to an agreed-upon constant, in an
involved process called "password substitution."

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