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Article #254Re: Ontario Government Computers: Prudes Veto Vulgarity in Cyberspace
From: Ed Thomson
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 02:29
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 02:29
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SEGAL HENRY ALAN (segalh@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote: > Here is my reasoning: > When your password is checked, what you type (as your password) is encrypted > and compared with the entry in /etc/passwd. (There is no decryption > algorithm.) If the encryption guaranteed that no 2 passwords would have > identical encrypted forms, that would seem to make it easier to crack. > So it seems more likely that no such guarantee exists. > Therefore 2 passwords might work for the same account. Hmmm...well, if that's true, then I think DES is terribly insecure (as if we didn't already know this) and should be abandoned immediately... How bout ROT13??? <grin> -- Ed Thomson - ethomson@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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