From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: Weird group problems under .99.3 Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 22:47:53 GMT
In article <1993Jan14.181839.6910@alf.uib.no> magnus@ii.uib.no writes:
>You say that the availability of crypt as source code is a security
>problem, or rather - that it makes it simpler to break passwords.
>
>Do you really think crypt is reversible?
>
>If you can do that, you're a rich man.
>
>-Magnus
I have heard that it is possible to reduce the search field
when trying to crack passwords, if you have the source. I am
not an expert in security (is anyone), but I do know that with
enough processing power you can crack any password, if you
have the algorithm used, and the encrypted string.