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From: CCHD@latvax8.lat.oz (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: HPWD.MAR in a higher level language?
Message-ID: <4569@latvax8.lat.oz>
Date: 26 Jul 90 11:29:41 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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Has anyone rewritten HPWD.MAR in a higher level language (preferably c)?

There are two reasons for this - I would like to use it to hash passwords
under Unix (I'm trying to make it more secure) and secondly, I'd like
to crack passwords more rapidly :-) As part of our regular security
checks, we run SYSUAF.DAT through a dictionary and expire all passwords
that we guess. Currently on our 8700 it takes about 5 minutes per account,
but on an idle RS/6000 it might be a little quicker!

If noone has done it, I'll just do it myself, so comments about security
are probably not appropriate, although I'd be happy to discuss this
via e-mail.

Huw Davies,
Senior Systems Programmer,
Computer Centre,
La Trobe University,
Bundoora,
Victoria 3083, Australia

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