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- From: nimouat@napier.waterloo.edu (Nikos Mouat)
- Subject: /etc/passwords
- Message-ID: <Brt4nI.IFw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Keywords: what kind of encription
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:23:42 GMT
- Approved: never
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- What kind of encoding scheme is used, is it RSA?
- I noticed in the file, a userid, a bunch of letters, and a couple of
- numbers, followed by a bunch of finger info.
- Are the two numbers your n and p (I forget precisely how rsa encription works)
- And if it is RSA encryption, does it use the unix ASCII equivalent to
- encode the letters?
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- Cheers,
- Nikos.
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