[TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 18:21:20 AEST 2019


On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 1:50 AM Nigel Williams <nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com>
wrote:

> ken is done:
>
> ZghOT0eRm4U9s:p/q2-q4!
>
> took 4+ days on an AMD Radeon Vega64 running hashcat at about 930MH/s
> during that time (those familiar know the hash-rate fluctuates and
> slows down towards the end).
>

This feat made it The Register:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/09/ken_thompsons_old_unix_password_cracked/

        - Dan C.
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