Re: Passwords

From: StormeRider (silk@ICI.NET)
Date: 11/15/97


At 06:01 PM 11/15/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Is there a way to UNCRYPT passwds?
>
Gack, no! You'd have to write an algorithim to attempt it, and I believe it
is based on the UNIX encryption alogorithm, which is pretty damned tight if
you're smart. Try getting a crypt program like crack if you want to break
into them ;-)
Not that I advocate doing so, but crack was intended to be used by
sysadmins to warn of weak passwords... and became a hackers tool.

--Stormy--


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