How to stop future viruses.

Root Boy Jim rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov
Tue Nov 15 08:54:43 AEST 1988


   From: peter honeyman <honey at mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
   Date: 10 Nov 88 05:40:29 GMT
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   Dennis L. Mumaugh writes:
   >... I  encrypted  the  dictionary  FIRST.  Then  it  was  one
   >encrypt  and  a fgrep.  From start to finish (copy of /etc/passwd
   >until printing of list of lognames and password was 45 minutes!).

   where did you store the gigabyte file?  how long did it take to
   generate it?  (25,000 word dictionary, 4,096 salts, 11 byte output
   each.)

	   peter

In *core* on a Cray :-)

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	(301) 975-5688
	<rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov> or <rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
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