On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:55:50PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote
> Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > > > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
> > > > for
Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
> > > for that purpose?
> > It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call
was
used to encrypt the passwords in the first place) against suspected
plaintext passwords and compare that result to the crypted values in the
password file.
Password encryption is one way: plain-text to "crypted" data. When you
log in, whatever you enter at the password prompt is enc
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote:
: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
:
: > Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
: > because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.
:
: Well, yes, but . . .
:
: W
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
> > for that purpose?
>
> It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it "cracking",
> or more specifically, "brute-
Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
> for that purpose?
It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it "cracking",
or more specifically, "brute-force cracking".
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Pann McCuaig wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> > Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
> > because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.
>
> Well, yes, but . . .
>
>
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
> because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.
Well, yes, but . . .
What do you call "discovering" a weak password using t
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>Most likely because it uses some kind of regular DES which isn't strong enou
>gh to fall under
>export controls.
Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
because password encryption is one-way: you c
Most likely because it uses some kind of regular DES which isn't strong enough
to fall under
export controls.
Sami Dalouche wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Today, I've just realized that the passwd package uses encryption. The
> problem is that I wonder why it's not in the non-US section.
> Every pack
Hi everyone,
Today, I've just realized that the passwd package uses encryption. The
problem is that I wonder why it's not in the non-US section.
Every package that uses encryption seems to be in non-US, so why isn't passwd
in non-US too ?
Bye,
sami
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Butch Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know how to propagate the password file to the second machine but the
> problem I have not solved is how to have both machines use the same "seed"
> for encrypting the passwords. Right now, if I add a user to machine A and
> copy their encrypted passwo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I have two machines running Debian 1.3. I want to add a user with their
password to the first machine and have the information propagated to the
second machine for backup purposes.
I know how to propagate the password file to the second machine but t
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> how do you convert a passwd/shadow file to md5 passwords?
>
> say i've got a shadow file full of old-style crypted passwords, how do i
> convert them all to md5crypt (without having to know what the plaintext
> password is)?
I dont think that is poss
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
> On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
>
> For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5
> passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that
> recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly. Programs that
> do
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
> recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For
> example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.
>
> Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really
> prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
> passwords.
libc6 supports MD5 passwords (almost) transparently. There may be some
stupid programs that do thi
In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For
example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.
Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really
prefer a password system with mor
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