Re: Password Cracking & Consequences

[Scott Weeks <sweeks () SANDIEGO EDU>]

:  At any institution where passwords are cracked, if a user were found to
:  be doing illegal things (pornography, sharing music) under their
:  account, they would have the perfect defense, because someone else could
:  know their password. I'd sure state that someone else knew my password
:  and look it is common practice for the system administrators to look up
:  the passwords, I believe one of them must have told someone else my
:  password.


But the password would've been changed and retested until there was no
weakness.  Meaning LC5, Crack or John the Ripper could not guess it in a
reasonable amount of time.  Therefore, no one would know it.

scott

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