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Walter Belgers December 6, 1993



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Abstract: This document was written to make system administrators aware of the importance of wellchosen passwords. Easy-to-guess passwords offer hackers (Update)

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.... from the remote system (on given machine architectures) More typical, perhaps, are security violations due to captured passwords (see Belgers(1993) 3 ) With todays powerful workstations, programs can be run to decrypted encrypted passwords captured from servers (for details...

.... user training and education to raise security awareness and establishing security guidelines and rules for users to follow [AS99, Bel93] Note that all three classes of solutions do not remedy the main cause of password insecurity, which is the human limitation of memory...

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Walter Belgers(1993), Unix Password Security, ftp: UNIX-passwords, ftp.win.tue.nl 4 http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/belgers93unix.html   More

@techreport{ belgers93unix,
    author = "Walter Belgers",
    title = "{UNIX} Password Security",
    year = "1993",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/belgers93unix.html" }
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20   Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it (context) - FARMER, VENEMA - 1993
17   UNIX Password Security -- Ten Years Later - FELDMEIER, KARN - 1989
11   Foiling the Cracker (context) - KLEIN - 1990
6   An Introduction to Cryptology (context) - VAN TILBORG - 1988
3   UNIX System Security (context) - CURRY - 1992
1   A High-Speed Software DES Implementation - FELDMEIER - 1989
1   Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Security (context) - MUFFET
1   RFC1281: Guidelines for the Secure Operation of the Internet (context) - PETHIA, CROCKER et al. - 1991
1   can be obtained by sending email with Subject `TOM5' to time.. (context) - BELGERS, Security et al. - 1993
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