Password security - Another idea

[Mark A. Heilpern]

In article <669 at brwa.inmos.co.uk> rob at inmos.co.uk (Robin Pickering) writes:
-->In article <232 at ibd.BRL.MIL> heilpern at brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>) writes:

-->>Suppose, among the standard dot files in the home directory, there was to be
-->>a new one: .case . The login program is to check this file,
-->
-->Why stop with case, why not specify a more general per-user password pre-
-->munging mechanism.  This seems quite an effective way to increase the
-->password search space to any party without access to the private munging
-->factor used.
-->
--> Rob Pickering

Rob, 
	You've won my approval!
			Mark

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