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- From: miss059@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pug)
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- Subject: Re: /etc/passwords
- Keywords: what kind of encription
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.231207.7366@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:12:07 GMT
- References: <Brt4nI.IFw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <Brt4nI.IFw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> nimouat@napier.waterloo.edu (Nikos Mouat) writes:
- >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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- Try looking at passwd.c. It'll give you some ideas. That's where the
- encryption is done. If I remember right, it's an almost irreversible
- process. Login will encode what you type in and check it against what it
- has stored in /etc/passwd.
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- Have fun.
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