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Re: Password Security: A Case History
From: Alexandre Dulaunoy <a () foo be>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:59:32 +0200
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
Interesting reading from 1978.... Unix used to use a World War II US-Army cipher (M-209) for password encryption. http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/password/password.pdf
As we are on funsec, Robert Morris[1] (the co-author of this paper) is the father of Robert Tappan Morris[2]. The loop is closed. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_%28cryptographer%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Diary -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Password Security: A Case History Alexandre Dulaunoy (Mar 28)