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From: jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
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Date: 17 Sep 89 07:37:16 GMT
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kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) writes:
>One day while bored at work, I got out a piece of paper and traced back
>the DES crypt routine for some popular combinations of salt/key. If
>anyone is intrested, I have the passwords that make *, x, X, and 13 X's
>and 13 x's work. Send me E-mail.

Wow!  You must have been extremely bored...  But I'd
check your work, since the DES algorithm isn't supposed
to yield 1-character strings.

--Joe English

  jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu.  BTW, if you've got some spare time on
  your hands, could you factor 1001314159265692877 for me?
  Thanks.