Authentication failure

RadioMail
1

I am having trouble authenticating with RadioMail, I get the following message:

*** Connecting to WL2K with TELNET @ cms.winlink.org:8772
[WL2K-5.0-B2FWIHJM$]
;PQ: 65901794
CMS>
;FW: N0SR
[RadioMail-1.5.3-B2FHM$]
;PR: ********
; WL2K DE N0SR (DM79ku)
FF
*** Error: [1] Secure login failed - account password does not match. - Disconnecting (95.173.221.91)

I get the same message when connecting via RF using my BBLink, TH-D74, and two different iOS devices. (iOS version 26.5.2 on iPhone 15 Plus and iPadOS 26.5.2 on an iPad Pro 5th Gen, RadioMail v1.5.3 (1) )

I pasted the password from my password manager and it works fine with other apps (I.e. Winlink on PC). I was testing DigiPi and had issues with a special character in my password. I was able to fix the issue by modifying how the password was parsed within Linux. Am I running into the same issue with RadioMail?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Jay

73 de N0SR

2

Winlink authentication uses an MD5 digest response (PR) computed from the server-issued challenge (PQ).

Although Winlink only supports ISO 8859-1, the challenge-response algorithm itself should support UTF-8. I can’t say for certain whether a special character in the password is causing Winlink and RadioMail to generate different digest values.

As a test, try changing your password to use only standard ASCII characters (no special or accented characters) and see if that resolves the issue.