At 19:57 -0800 1/8/2002, Satya wrote: >Going the other way -- decrypting the encrypted string -- is very, >very, difficult.
It's not all that hard, hence shadow passwords, and also different methods of encrypting. In the mid-90s, a high end desktop machine was said to be able to produce a working password, given the encrypted one, in half a day or so, by brute force (and without raising red flags by testing with the system in question). (The 8-character password limit inherent in using crypt() puts a nice constraint on the brute force method's maximum time.) --John -- John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
