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Passwords and Exobytes
- To: <michael>
- Subject: Passwords and Exobytes
- From: Eric Dean Tribble <tribble>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 90 16:05:08 PDT
- Cc: <xtech>
- In-reply-to: <Michael>,52 PDT <9004281217.AA10541@xanadu>
curtis abbot made a similar cryptographic analysis. HE wrote a simple
program to try decrypting unix password. It first tries all
alphabetic lower case. Then tries a few upper case letters. Then
does it all over again with 1 punctuation character, etc. The actual
interesting search space is astoundingly small....
dean