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Subject: Re: password encoding
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Date: 7 Jun 91 17:28:21 GMT
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In article <9106061434.AA08760@mcsun.EU.net> you write:
>gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
>
>No. Unix is using a modified DES-Algorithm, which has (as far as we
>know :-) not yet been broken. Minix cannot use this algorithm, because

It seems that Dod has included a "bug" in the DES algorithm such that they
can reverse the DES algorithm. Anyway, DES is only garanteed upto (I
believe) 1992. After than Dod expects computers to be so fast that they can
actualy crack the algorithm by just trying every possiblity.