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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: /etc/passwords
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.013749.14131@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <Brt4nI.IFw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:37:49 GMT
- Approved: The ParryMeister
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- 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?
-
- Nobody has actually answered the second bit of the question which is
- that those 2 numbers are your user id and group id. The key for the
- encryption is the first two characters of the encoded password.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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