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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How secure is UNIX?
Keywords: Security, ftp
Message-ID: <13109@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 13 Jun 90 21:55:16 GMT
References: <1752@necis <8480@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <207@rdb1.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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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.

No, passwords are encrypted using a different algorithm.  crypt(1) is
not hard to break; crypt(3) is quite hard to break.