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- From: steven2@salesbook.com (Steve Nutt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix password encryption algorithm
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 06:41:27 GMT
- Organization: DET
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- umdiaz@cc.umanitoba.ca (Mark Diaz) wrote:
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- >:Does anybody know where I can get the Unix password encyrption algorithm?
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- >Its in the fountain of youth, right next to the holy grail.
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- Not that it will help you crack any passwords, but you might find it
- in a GNU ftp site. I'm not even sure that there is a standard
- algorithm but it/they will be trapdoors, so one way encryption only.
- No decyrption.
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- Steve
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