Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

[bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen)]

Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no> writes:

> severity 207300 grave
> quit
>
> * Karsten M. Self
>
>  > Briefly:  challenge-response (C-R) spam fighting systems are
>  > fundamentally broken by design.
>
>  > I am recommending that TMDA be dropped from Debian.

I use tmda, but not in challenge-response mode.  I find it useful for
its cryptographic hash-address system and the autowhitelisting code.

-Brian

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Brian T. Sniffen                                        bts@alum.mit.edu
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