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  • Subject: Re: INCREDIBLE - what am I missing here... ??? !!!
  • From: "Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:19:12 -0500

Alistair,

> That was a rhetorical question. I was rather hoping no-one would be daft
> enough to actually post it!

Why was I 'daft' to post it ?

I gave you reasons in a later post why it wasn't 'daft', here's some more;

1. It's a public (in the sense that IBM expect you to perform operations on
the object) object

2. There are API's to retrieve and set entries in this object

3. The entries are encrypted, poorly (in the sense the keyspace is
restricted by the system values that control what can be used as a
password), but still encrypted

4. Tools other than the API's (since V4R5 by default, and lower release by
applying PTF's) do not return the contents of the object - thus unless you
have been given access to the API's (they come as public *EXCLUDE, and you
need to have *SECADM special auth too) you won't see any data.

There are others, but I hope I've made my point by now, that it's not a
super secret object that only IBM should know about.

--phil

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