Alex sez:

Is there a "challenge response" type of password/login available somewhere ?

Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) has an optional command called APOP which sends a string of the form "<process-ID.clock@hostname>". The POP3 client calculates the MD5 digest of <process-ID.clock@hostname>password and sends it to the server as "APOP username 58349485whatever89583449". I like it. Regards, -- Joey Grasty jgrasty@gate.net [home -- encryption, privacy, RKBA and other hopeless causes] jgrasty@pts.mot.com [work -- designing pagers] "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann