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references m-o
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password protection
Topic:
encryption
Topic:
security by access rights

Reference

Morris, R., Thompson, K., "Password security: A case history", Bell Laboratories. Google

Other Reference

Unix documentation

Quotations
2 ;;Quote: UNIX first used a cleartext password file with strong access protection; vulnerable when editing; lapse revealed all passwords
4 ;;Quote: DES encryption is hard to invert and extremely slow when implemented by software
5 ;;Quote: UNIX prevents key searching by encrypting password with a 12-bit random salt; so 4096 versions of each password
5 ;;Quote: to avoid hardware DES attacks, UNIX randomly changes the E-table of the DES algorithm
6 ;;Quote: UNIX password system for frustrating widespread password searches; super-user passwords already effective


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