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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Defeat password by C
- Date: 18 Apr 96 09:12:37 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4l4cns$gs0@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com> VRLL67A@prodigy.com (Bubba Meigs) writes:
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- >I am a student who trying to learn how to program C++.
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- Then you are in the wrong newsgroup. Quite typical for a Prodigy user :-)
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- >I just wonder if anyone know how to write a program by C++ to break the
- >password.
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- Compose all the possible passwords acceptable to the system and try them.
- Sooner or later you will find the correct one. This is the only method
- with a 100% success rate, but there is no guarantee that the password
- will be broken during your lifetime :-)
-
- For a method which is much faster, but with a considerably poorer
- success rate (it will always fail to break a correctly chosen password,
- but it will guess a lot of naively chosen passwords) have a look at a
- program named "crack". Ask archie to find it on the net.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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