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In anticipation of a rhetorical answer, I will therefore ask a rhetorical question:

How many topics on area51 need to devolve into an argument about Quick Reply, especially when Quick Reply is completely offtopic?

It's going to be on the priority list of things to get done, although, the projects i'm working on for the team are (and probably always will be) higher than it.

Even though i'm the author of Cash Mod, i would protest it ever getting included as a core feature of phpbb... it's a MOD, and i think it should always remain as such.

Yeah thats too easy. :?

Just remove the non moving bits (gif animation does that anyway) and you've got your letters.

Now get the background moving, make it easier to read and give it the ability to be generated in 1 sec on a Celeron then you have a Captcha. :lol:


indeed.

even if the gif ...

Captcha can be funny!



?April Fools?

As weak or as strong as any hashing algorithm is going to be, if the adversary knows what algorithm you're using, you're already ceding a point to them...

The strength of real encryption algorithms doesn't come from the fact that the algrithm is secret.


No argument =)


With that said, on ...

What you describe is overkill.

I readily agree with you. I did state at the beginning of my post that it's a paranoid approach. It must be noted however, that as time passes, what constitutes "overkill" will also change, based on what breaks and what remains secure.


It is based on the ...

and if you are tired discussing things on discussion boards with "coders", as you so nicely put it, i doubt very much that anyone actually forces you to.


http://xore.ca/missingthepoint.png

Edit: It's also obvious that you either didn't read, or completely failed to understand his post, in it ...

Well, to set paranoia in good and firm, how about the following...
Wavering Table Functions.

As weak or as strong as any hashing algorithm is going to be, if the adversary knows what algorithm you're using, you're already ceding a point to them...

Instead, i propose the following (paranoid) setup ...

You make it sound almost tame.


But they are! ;) & :mrgreen:


Are you trying to cover up after the dark day of bertie madness when he went psychotic on the last person who asked that question and plastered their front lawn with phpbb bumper stickers, and keyed up their car?

it got ugly x_x ...