MD5 proposal

>   From owner-db-wg at ripe.net Mon Mar 25 14:29:46 2002
>   From: Engin Gunduz <engin at ripe.net>

>   > Let's suppose I send in a message with
>   > password:   Hello
>   > (note the three spaces).
>   >
>   > It is not clear to me where the passphrase would start. I can think of
>   > two valid approaches:
>   > 1. At the first character after the first white space (space or tab)
>   > following the colon (":") (in my example the passphrase would be then
>   > "  Hello").
>   > 2. At the first non-whitespace character after the colon (in which case
>   > the passphrase would be "Hello").
>   >
>   > I think I would vote for the second approach which is more intuitive
>   > to me. BTW: how does this work with CRYPT-PW? I would think it is the
>   > second approach.
>   
>   Yes, the current approach is the second one. This implicitely
>   prohibits the use of white space as the first characters of the
>   password but probably this is less confusing for the users then
>   having the behaviour you defined in 1.

>   I don't think this is documented. We'll make sure it will
>   be in the user manual, and in reference document if
>   necessary.

Great! Thanks.

Best regards,
Janos