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Old 03-24-2014
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Now that is a cause for worry... Anyone who borrows a phone has the capacity to accidentally destroy it. These lockout things depend on an administrator being able to unlock them...
I never lend my phone to anyone. I am not allowed to. It is company property. Anyone who "borrows" it is a criminal and my company will press charges. The password unlocking screen clearly displays the number of attempts remaining. Right now it says "10 attempts remain before device data is deleted." Should that happen the phone can be re-initialized and used again. No one can help me access the data in the phone if I forget the password.

We have laptops with encrypted drives that also work like this. Even our thumb drives (Imation Iron-Key) work like this. This is not an uncommon security model.
 
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curlopt_tlsauth_type

CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_TYPE(3) 				     curl_easy_setopt options					   CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_TYPE(3)

NAME

       CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_TYPE - set TLS authentication methods

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_TYPE, char *type);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a	pointer  to  a zero terminated string as parameter. The string should be the method of the TLS authentication. Supported method is
       "SRP".

       SRP    TLS-SRP authentication. Secure Remote Password authentication for TLS is defined in RFC5054 and provides	mutual	authentication	if
	      both  sides  have a shared secret. To use TLS-SRP, you must also set the CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_USERNAME(3) and CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_PASSWORD(3)
	      options.

	      The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

       blank

PROTOCOLS

       All TLS-based protocols

EXAMPLE

       TODO

AVAILABILITY

       You need to build libcurl with GnuTLS or OpenSSL with TLS-SRP support for this to work. Added in 7.21.4

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_USERNAME(3), CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_PASSWORD(3),

libcurl 7.54.0							 December 21, 2016					   CURLOPT_TLSAUTH_TYPE(3)