RFC 1725:Post Office Protocol - Version 3
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Shared Secret


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... RFC1321] to a string consisting of the timestamp (including angle-brackets) followed by a shared secret. This shared secret is a string known only to the POP3 ...
... timestamp (including angle-brackets) followed by a shared secret. This shared secret is a string known only to the POP3 client and server ...
... AUTHORIZATION state. Note that as the length of the shared secret increases, so does the difficulty of deriving it. As such, shared secrets should be long strings (considerably longer than ...
... Note that as the length of the shared secret increases, so does the difficulty of deriving it. As such, shared secrets should be long strings (considerably longer than the 8-character example shown below). ...
... S: +OK maildrop has 1 message (369 octets) In this example, the shared secret is the string `tan- staaf'. Hence, the MD5 algorithm ...


... allowed, but not both. Further, note that as the length of the shared secret increases, so does the difficulty of deriving it. ...



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