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- From: 0003858921@MCIMAIL.COM ("Robert G. Moskowitz")
- Subject: Re: New User Accounts
- Message-ID: <53920903103935.0003858921NA3EM@mcimail.com>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:39:00 GMT
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- Ganesan writes:
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- >What problem does it NOT solve?
- >Type 2. Password weakness problems:
- > - password guessing
- > - dictionary attacks
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- From the Kerberos class that I took at spring INTEROP, it would seem that the
- dictionary in v5 will pretty much stop these two.
-
- Nothing will stop intentional password sharing. Even with a SecureID. It is
- just more limited with SecureID.
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- Robert Moskowitz
- Chrysler Corp.
-