Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!uqun05!uqun38!teb From: teb@uqun38.nixdorf.de (Tobias Brueck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: how are password encryped? Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 07:33:46 GMT References: <13507@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1990Nov9.095039.20561@newcastle.ac.uk> <11101@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@uqun05.nixdorf.de Lines: 25 clarke@ives.cs.colostate.edu (Charles Clarke) writes: >For the passwords, the 'key' is easily obtainable. It is the salt >(first two letters of the encrypted password for those of you who missed that). >The password (unencrypted) is the plain text. The program encrypts your >password using the key and a modified DES. It then compares this with >what is stored for you in the passwd file. This is not true . If you use this , you have to analyse the password-programm to get the key . The password is the key , with a plaintext of 0's or 1's . >Happy hacking! >charles ****** I still havn't found , what I'm looking for ****** ============================================================================= | Tobias Brueck | Siemens-Nixdorf-Informationssysteme AG | WIF-382 | | D-W4790 Paderborn | Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring | Phone: inter-5251-10-5815 | | Federal Republic of Germany | Republique Federale d'Allemagne | ============================================================================= | europe: eunet : ..!unido!nixpbe!brueck.pad | brueck.pad@nixdorf.com... | | usa: usenet: ..!linus!nixbur!brueck.pad | | =============================================================================