BSD passwd() [was Re: How to stop future viruses.]

[Jeff Siegal]

In article <7311 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> aoki at faerie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes:
>In article <10436 at eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs at fenchurch.UUCP (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>>[...]only about 400 salts ever get used.
>Hmm.  I just [...] found 630 salts for 671 accounts [...].

Yes, it is pretty clear now that my claim is wrong.

>Where did you get this information?

I was told this a while ago--I don't remember by whom.  Before posting
the information, I did check the source code but I did not think very
hard about what I saw.

After looking again and thinking a bit, I see now why it isn't true.

Jeff Siegal