Re: Breaking an encrypted file

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From: John Ioannidis
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 06:07

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In article <Jan.8.14.52.25.1993.25723@aramis.rutgers.edu> watrous@aramis.rutgers.edu (Don Watrous) writes:
>
>I have a user who has encrypted a file using the unix crypt program
>and then forgotten the password.  She's pretty sure she knows what the
>first line of the file looks like since it was saved mail.
>
>What software is available to try and decrypt the file and how much
>effort will be involved?
>

cwb, the crypt-breaker's workbench, was posted a while back on
comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc. Check the archives on uunet.

/ji

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