Re: Password encryption/de-cryption

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From: Eric Smith
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 18:21

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In article <409t0n$45p@odin.diku.dk>, Niels Ull Jacobsen <null@diku.dk> wrote:
>shah@wg.com writes:
>In this way, noone can get the original password even if they have
>access to the encrypted version.

But they don't need the original password to crack it.  All they need
is any password that encrypts to the same result.  Can't they just
look at the result and determine what pattern is needed in a password
to generate that result?

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From: erc@cinenet.net (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Password encryption/de-cryption
Date: 9 Aug 1995 11:21:42 -0700
Organization: Cinenet Communications, Internet Access, Santa Monica, USA
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