Jared,

This seems to be a 'brute force' dictionary based attack, as I believe the
Oracle password is a one-way trapdoor (just as UNIX). I don't think this
will be able to crack a strong password created from say a combination of
the first characters of an arbitrary sentence.

John Kanagaraj
Oracle Applications DBA
DBSoft Inc
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** The opinions and statements above are entirely my own and not those of my
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:09 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: password
> 
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> Well maybe you *can* crack oracle passwords.
> 
> I've just ordered the full version of this product.  ( $4, I don't
> think I need to bother the purchasing department ).
> 
> I'll let you know how it works.
> 
> Jared
> 
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