how are password encryped?

[Steven V. Christensen]

clarke at ives.cs.colostate.edu (Charles Clarke) writes:

>For the passwords, the 'key' is easily obtainable.  It is the salt
....

>As was pointed out, you do not care who knows the encryption algorithm
>(in this case, you do not care who knows about the key either)

>Looking at the source for crypt(3) is a way to see what the modified DES
>looks like, but expect to get a headache.

A though just occurring--- since the sources for the encryption algorithms
are available, why hasn't anyone written a decrypter? Is the algorithm that
"one way"ish?

>Happy hacking!

>charles

		Steven
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