DES encryption unsecure?

Article View: sci.crypt

Article #1045

#1045

From: Sam Hulick
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:26

10 lines
991 bytes

Someone said that they, provided an encrypted DES password
(e.g. nC25oUpKKpq83), can take that encrypted password and DECRYPT IT,
resulting in the actual user's password.  How possible is this?  Can someone
e-mail me the documentation on how DES works, exactly?

-- 
Sam Hulick          | "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to
shulick@indiana.edu | hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the
(NeXTmail welcome)  | essence of inhumanity."  --George Bernard Shaw

Technical Details

Message-ID: <BvBLJE.9rt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!navajo!shulick

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!navajo!shulick
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: DES encryption unsecure?
Message-ID: <BvBLJE.9rt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Originator: shulick@navajo
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Nntp-Posting-Host: navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:26:01 GMT
Lines: 10