Crypt() hackers

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From: Douglas Nelson
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 19:40

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I heard something about the regular old crypt() on most versions of Unix has
been cracked by a program???  Being a security adviser for our system, I would
like to see how this was done, and what could be done to prevent it.


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Douglas Nelson
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From: dnelson@ddsw1.UUCP (Douglas Nelson)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Crypt() hackers
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Date: 2 Feb 88 19:40:21 GMT
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