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Abstract: Passwords in the UNIX operating system are encrypted with the crypt algorithm and
kept in the publicly-readable file /etc/passwd. This paper examines the vulnerability
of UNIX to attacks on its password system. Over the past 10 years, improvements
in hardware and software have increased the crypts/second/dollar ratio by five orders
of magnitude. We reexamine the UNIX password system in light of these advances
and point out possible solutions to the problem of easily found passwords. The paper... (Update)
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D.C. Feldmeier and P.R. Karn, "UNIX Password Security - Ten Years Later", Proceedings of Crypto'89, published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No.435, Springer-Verlag, pp.44-63. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/188968.html More
@inproceedings{ feldmeier89unix,
author = "David C. Feldmeier and Philip R. Karn",
title = "{UNIX} Password Security - Ten Years Later",
booktitle = "{CRYPTO}",
pages = "44-63",
year = "1989",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/188968.html" }
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