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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: foiling password crackers
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 16:29:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 16:29:43 1986
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> The article in The Oct. 1984 AT&T Bell Labs Technical Journal
> might be "UNIX Operating System Security" by F. T. Grampp and
> R. H. Morris (p. 1649-1672.)  ...

That article is very much worth reading, in fact, purely for its
discussion of why various seemingly-attractive security ideas
DON'T WORK in practice.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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