how are password encryped?

[Tobias Brueck]

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

>For the passwords, the 'key' is easily obtainable.  It is the salt
>(first two letters of the encrypted password for those of you who missed that).

>The password (unencrypted) is the plain text.  The program encrypts your
>password using the key and a modified DES.  It then compares this with
>what is stored for you in the passwd file.

This is not true .
If you use this , you have to analyse the password-programm to get the key .
The password is the key , with a plaintext of 0's or 1's .
>Happy hacking!
>charles


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