Password security - Another idea

[Robin Pickering]

In article <232 at ibd.BRL.MIL> heilpern at brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>) writes:
>Here's an interesting idea:
>
>Let's assume a users password is:  physics
>This would most likely be solved in a routine dictionary search.
>
>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
 
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