Xref: utzoo rec.games.mud:2701 alt.security:2037 comp.unix.wizards:24587 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!undrground!seanp From: undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) Newsgroups: rec.games.mud,alt.security,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Hacking Keywords: WARNING Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 14:34:50 GMT References: <1991Mar27.173046.29751@decuac.dec.com> Organization: A Network Beneath the Earth - The Underground Empire. Lines: 24 mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > jpb@umbio.med.miami.edu (jpb) writes: > > >Surprise. The technique is not to try and crack DES, but to apply the same > >algorithm to a dictionary file, [...] > >[...] If you're feeling sophisticated, you maintain a > > If you're feeling "sophisticated" you won't even try a dictionary > attack. Quelle gaucherie!! > > This dictionary-attack newbie stuff is about IBM-PC BBS-weenie > level. Sure, it works, but it's nauseatingly amateurish. ^^^^^^^^ That's all that counts in that game. Sean ---- Sean Petty |INTERNET: undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com | UUCP: uunet!cbmvax!amix!undrground!seanp "In order to make anything from | ICBM: 39.58.1' North 75.61.1' West scratch, you must first create | 50/50: seanp@undrground.UUCP the universe." - Carl Sagan | seanp@amix.commodore.com