Re: Password Security: A Case History

[Alexandre Dulaunoy <a () foo be>]

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

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