Improving password security
Boyd Roberts
boyd at necisa.necisa.oz
Mon Nov 28 12:34:48 AEST 1988
In article <741 at quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>There is no reason why a password server could not be replicated.
So, we'll just re-invent YP, again!?! No point doing something badly, when
you can get some other mindless jerk to do it _really_ badly.
On another issue, aren't the ``automated password'' camp completely off
the beam? With that style of password choice there's no point in
cracking the _password_. Attack would be focused on the password
_generator_ function. Unless, of course, the generator algorithm is
at least equally difficult to crack.
Enough of this password discussion.
Boyd Roberts NEC Information Systems Australia
boyd at necisa.necisa.oz
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