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Detect slident and or fake identd

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Detect identd servers that return random tokens

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote ident server returns random token instead of
leaking real user IDs. This is a good thing.

Risk factor: None

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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