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In article <10013@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
>>>They didn't explicitly say that they cracked the root password. 
>>
>>If decrypting the passwords gave him the root password, then yes, Dave,
>>they cracked the root password.
>
>  Oh, come on... what do you think is more likely: these two kids
>broke the DES encryption scheme, or the newspaper confused decrypting
>with running the encryption on a /usr/dict/words file and greping
>it with the /passwd file.

Since both of these cases can be called "cracking" the root password,
what is your problem?

I think that it is most likely that they used something like Crack,
which is really not the same as either one of your proposed methods.

>  I'll grant you they cracked the root, and thus system, but unless
>I see some more details I'm going to be really skeptical of claims
>they came up with the inverse DES function.

My comment was in response to Dave's claim that the article didn't say
that the kids "cracked" the root password. Nothing else. You admit
that they cracked the password, and nobody here has claimed they
inverted the DES algorithm. What's your problem?