Re: System call on Solaris 2.8 to retrieve current user's password
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Date: 05/18/04
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Date: 18 May 2004 21:16:53 GMT
In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405181651430.20601@localhost.localdomain>,
Stephen SM WONG wrote:
>Oh no, if Solaris 2.8 still uses DES to encrypt password
>entries, it certainly doesn't take a million year to
>"brute-force" crack it.
Solaris 9 gives you the option of modern hashes. MD5 and blowfish IIRC.
A recent effort published in ;login: searched the entire 8-char input space.
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