Xref: utzoo rec.games.mud:2683 alt.security:2028 comp.unix.wizards:24564 Newsgroups: rec.games.mud,alt.security,comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!mbunix!pjnesser From: pjnesser@mbunix.mitre.org (Nesser) Subject: Re: Hacking In-Reply-To: kidder@en.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 27 Mar 91 09:43:25 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: mbunix.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. References: <1991Mar26.015635.23103@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar26.163720.28379@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar27.041126.9886@news.miami.edu> <1991Mar27.094325.24599@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 14:28:53 Someone in this thread pointed out that the way to crack passwords is to maintain a list of encrypted dictionary words and compare against that. I just want to point out that this is an amazingly expensive way to do it since you have to keep 4096 strings for each word. Disk space is getting cheaper but ... It's not that I've figured out a great way to do it myself but ... :-) -- ---> Philip J. Nesser Member of the Technical Staff The MITRE Corporation ARPA: pjnesser@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!pjnesser