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From: pmkatz@axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: Additional Bad Passwords not in VMS 5.4
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Date: 5 Feb 91 12:51:18 GMT
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From article <436@sickkids.UUCP>, by mark@sickkids.toronto.edu (Mark Bartelt):
> OK, I can understand why DEC might be embarrassed to ship its corporate
> bigwig customers a component of VMS with something like "asshole" buried
> inside,

	Actually, VMS ships with a complete list of swear words, in a
variety of languages!. These are used internally to ensure that generated
passwords don't offend anyone. It is quite easy to access and decipher them
... they are all stored rot-1 !

	I remember posting the words I didn't know to comp.os.vms some time
ago and getting many replies from around the world telling me what the
various words meant and in what languages !!

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