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From: mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: WARNING!
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.163540.23924@engin.umich.edu>
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Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@ais.org>
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society
References: <26512@adm.brl.mil> <1991Apr14.093305.12559@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <1991Apr20.150213.23439@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 16:35:40 GMT

In article <1991Apr20.150213.23439@csusac.csus.edu> croft@csusac.csus.edu (Steve Croft) writes:
:Leong and Tham presented a paper at winter Usenix where they claimed a
:hardware based encyrpter could determine a lower case password in 15
:days.  On the basis of this, they claimed that UNIX password encryption
:is insecure.

How would the passwords be recognized as such?  Visual inspection?  I
can't imagine my password as being anything but gibberish, even if
decrypted. 


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Mike O'Connor (mjo@ais.org)