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From: akhale@chamomile.uucp (Abhijit Khale)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How secure is UNIX?
Keywords: Security, ftp
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Date: 13 Jun 90 20:11:02 GMT
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In article <207@rdb1.UUCP> root@rdb1.UUCP (Robert Barrell) writes:

>     Also, what about the CBW (Crypt-Breaker's Workshop) programs?  I believe
>they are only for entire files that have been encrypted, but don't know if they
>are useful for passwords or not.
>

CBW helps to break crypt(1) which uses a comparitively simple encryption algorithm. 
crypt(3) which is used by the password  encryption algorithm is based on the DES which
is well-nigh impossible to break.  

Abhijit