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From the original article way back:
>``He then transferred the password file to a Boeing Company computer,
>where he decrypted the passwords.''

    I've always had the tendency to differentiate "cracking" and
"decrypting" as two separate things.  I always considered "decrypting"
to imply that the key was used to convert from cipher text to plain
text, or that the appropriate inverse algorithm was used.  "Cracking"
seems to imply things like randomly guessing the plain text until a
cipher text match is found, crunching out computationally difficult
inverse algorithms, or other illegitimate & unsanctioned methods to
discover the plain text.

    Am I wrong in believing this?  Does anybody else feel that the
newspaper was irresponsible (or at least misinformed) by saying he
"decrypted" the passwords?

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Mark R. Mach, mrmach@mtu.edu