WARNING!

[Steve Croft]

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.

They claim the board would cost about $2000 to build and consist of about
100 ECL chips.

The paper is in the proceedings; sorry if this has been mentioned earlier.

Steve Croft
stevec at water.ca.gov