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Steven Peterson wrote:
> We need to use a different shared secret for each robot.  I have set the
> default cookie parameter in the sympa.conf file, but when I try to set a
> 'cookie' parameter to the robot.conf files, I get an error saying that 
> 'cookie'
> is an unrecognized parameter.  Is there a way to have different shared secrets
> for each robot?  I am using Sympa 5.3a.10.
>   
That's true. It is not a pretty feature. Our plan to change this is to 
remove this unsafe parameter. password storage will not stay with 
reversible encryption but we will use only password fingerprint. In 
addition cookie will contain a random key stored in a session table.

This is describe here 
http://www.sympa.org/wiki/dev/projet_direction#authentication_architecture
and  http://www.sympa.org/wiki/dev/projet_direction#sessionning