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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Unix Password Security
Message-ID: <5310@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 16:52:28 GMT
References: <5081@swan.ulowell.edu>
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Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) wrote:
}Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the color of your hat), fdes
}doesn't work on all machines.

I assume you are talking about the byte-ordering problems?  I was able to
get it running on a Sun in about half an hour.  It's not that big a deal.

Anyway, the point of my suggestion is merely to get things back the
way they were.  Right now, the bad guys use fdes and the good guys don't,
and so the bad guys have a 100-to-1 advantage.  If the good guys start
using fdes too, things will be balanced again.
---
Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
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