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Article #4123Re: Unix Password Hacker
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1988 04:14
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1988 04:14
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> ... if he can crack one, he can crack two.
Requiring, one hopes, twice as much effort. That's the point.
> > The best we can do is to put as many obstacles in the intruder's
> > path as possible, in hopes that the effort needed to overcome them all will
> > discourage him enough to make him go somewhere else.
>
> If your security is based on `discouraging' an intruder, it doesn't sound very
> strong. You should assume the intruder is trying to crack _your_ system.
Pray tell, what *else* should we base our security on? There is no such
thing as perfect security; that is not even theoretically possible. Given
that, the *only* thing we can do is try to make penetration as difficult
as possible, in hopes that the intruder will give up or be detected before
he can get through.
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Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Unix Password Hacker Message-ID: <1988Mar13.041453.15214@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <731@ddsw1.UUCP> <657@morningdew.BBN.COM> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 88 04:14:53 GMT