How secure is UNIX?

[Abhijit Khale]

In article <207 at rdb1.UUCP> root at rdb1.UUCP (Robert Barrell) writes:

>     Also, what about the CBW (Crypt-Breaker's Workshop) programs?  I believe
>they are only for entire files that have been encrypted, but don't know if they
>are useful for passwords or not.
>

CBW helps to break crypt(1) which uses a comparitively simple encryption algorithm. 
crypt(3) which is used by the password  encryption algorithm is based on the DES which
is well-nigh impossible to break.  

Abhijit