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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: vi `ei:' (`modeline')
Summary: A couple bits of trivia
Keywords: vi passwd lookout
Message-ID: <9712@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 20 Oct 88 04:33:35 GMT
References: <3394@dunkshot.mips.COM> <1235@cbnews.ATT.COM> <13215@hqda-ai.ARPA> <7052@ki4pv.uucp> <1221@X.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1221@X.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
>just because you got the 1 in 3600 occurance of an encrypted password ending
>in "ex" ...

A password encrypted with the usual algorithm will never end in "ex" or "vi".
As a side effect of packing 64 bits of password into 11 six-bit characters,
the final character is always one of [.26AEIMQUYcgkosw].

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint