How to stop future viruses.

Jeff Siegal jbs at fenchurch.mit.edu
Fri Nov 11 09:49:33 AEST 1988


In article <10835 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
>You don't need to use all 4096 salts; you simply need the ones used
>on the target system.

It turns out that, due to a (apparent) bug in passwd.c, at least on
Berkeley systems, only about 400 salts ever get used.

Jeff Siegal



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