WARNING!
Mike O'Connor
mjo at irie.ais.org
Sun Apr 21 02:35:40 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr20.150213.23439 at csusac.csus.edu> croft at csusac.csus.edu (Steve Croft) writes:
:Leong and Tham presented a paper at winter Usenix where they claimed a
:hardware based encyrpter could determine a lower case password in 15
:days. On the basis of this, they claimed that UNIX password encryption
:is insecure.
How would the passwords be recognized as such? Visual inspection? I
can't imagine my password as being anything but gibberish, even if
decrypted.
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Mike O'Connor (mjo at ais.org)
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