vi `ei:' (`modeline')

Karl Heuer karl at haddock.ima.isc.com
Thu Oct 20 14:33:35 AEST 1988


In article <1221 at X.UUCP> john at 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 at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint



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