WARNING!

[Mike O'Connor]

In article <1991Apr20.150213.23439 at csusac.csus.edu> croft at csusac.csus.edu (Steve Croft) writes:
:Leong and Tham presented a paper at winter Usenix where they claimed a
:hardware based encyrpter could determine a lower case password in 15
:days.  On the basis of this, they claimed that UNIX password encryption
:is insecure.

How would the passwords be recognized as such?  Visual inspection?  I
can't imagine my password as being anything but gibberish, even if
decrypted. 


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Mike O'Connor (mjo at ais.org)