Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!beta!mbr
From: mbr@beta.UUCP (Mike Rose)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: VAX/VMS one way encryption: The Purdite Polynomial
Message-ID: <16600@beta.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 18:22:22 GMT
References: <705@oberlin.UUCP>
Reply-To: mbr@beta.UUCP (Mike Rose)
Organization: Los Alamos Natl. Lab, Los Alamos, NM
Lines: 10
Keywords: Purdy, password hashing

In article <705@oberlin.UUCP> cjs@oberlin.UUCP (chris seline) writes:
>One way encryption on VMS is done using the Purdite Polynomial.
>Does anyone know anything about it?
>Chris Seline

See Communications of the ACM, Aug 1974, "A High Security
Log-in Procedure", by George B. Purdy.

Mike Rose
mbr@lanl.gov