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Article #459Mundane Decoy
From: john peter wagner
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:54
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:54
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In response to an earlier poster's intent to find a secure method of protecting the ibm hard drive, perhaps a decoy could be used. That is, make your intital password system time-sensitive; add a single decimal digit for the hour and another for the ones-digit in the day of the month. Thus, one could have a relatively simple password made more complex- Ex.-gibber37, could be a valid password at 3:15pm, on , say, Nov. 27. A trojan would record the inputted password for the password. As soon as it is used on the system incorrectly by the hacker(The only way to use the same password correctly is to use it in a ten-day increment, or whatever.) The system would then allow the hacker into a prepared decoy-system, which would have little useful data, probably 'crashing' at the first execution of any binary file. Warning messages would be sent to everyone to change their passwords and even to redefine the modification of the time-generated password scheme(Soem other numbers used, etc.). Note, the decoy system should have a password or user file or whatever which will give re-access to the decoy for any of the passwords listed on it. Only an idea. John
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!sun-barr!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!quads!wag5 From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner) Subject: Mundane Decoy Message-ID: <1992Nov5.225408.13518@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Reply-To: wag5@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:54:08 GMT Lines: 22