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Article #220Re: Problem with npasswd??
From: Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for fo...
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:25
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:25
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hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes: >Now now. Calm down. I don't think my logic makes me that much of a kook. >I want an unCrackable password file. I haven't yet come up with how to >get one. Un-crackable password files are in principle a contradiction in terms. How many users do you have? If you want to get paranoid enough, just modify login to use a cryptographic calculator or something like that. Slapping code around to try to keep your users from doing something dumb is an endless race - the human capacity for doing dumb is much greater than we'd like to think. If you care about security *that* much, solve the problem, don't just keep throwing patches at it. mjr.
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,alt.security,comp.unix.ultrix Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decuac!hussar.dco.dec.com!mjr From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum) Subject: Re: Problem with npasswd?? Message-ID: <1992Jul28.192523.1862@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: hussar.dco.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center References: <1992Jul27.184324.14697@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Jul28.012207.27248@news.uiowa.edu> <1992Jul28.160606.12234@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:25:23 GMT Lines: 16