How secure is UNIX?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <207 at rdb1.UUCP> root at rdb1.UUCP (Robert Barrell) writes:
>     Also, what about the CBW (Crypt-Breaker's Workshop) programs?  I believe
>they are only for entire files that have been encrypted, but don't know if they
>are useful for passwords or not.

No, passwords are encrypted using a different algorithm.  crypt(1) is
not hard to break; crypt(3) is quite hard to break.