Worm/Passwords

[Achut Reddy]

In article <31031 at think.UUCP> barmar at kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>A problem with this Multics feature is that a cracker who knows that a
>user uses a generated password could probably generate a list of all
>the generated words in order of likely generation.
>
This problem is easily averted by giving a "random" seed to the 
pseudo-random number generator (say the low order bits of a 
high-resolution clock).

Achut Reddy