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From: achut@unisoft.UUCP (Achut Reddy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Worm/Passwords
Message-ID: <1404@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 00:49:43 GMT
References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <4627@rayssd.ray.com> <251@ispi.UUCP> <31031@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: achut@unisoft.UUCP (Achut Reddy)
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In article <31031@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>A problem with this Multics feature is that a cracker who knows that a
>user uses a generated password could probably generate a list of all
>the generated words in order of likely generation.
>
This problem is easily averted by giving a "random" seed to the 
pseudo-random number generator (say the low order bits of a 
high-resolution clock).

Achut Reddy