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Re: Passwd encrytion



Previously Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> It would be crazy to try to decrypt the passwords when it's so easy to
> exploit simple buffer overflows like the following one:
> 
> echo "I jnag gb penpx ebbg.  Pyrnfr erzbir zl nppbhag." | tr n-za-m a-z |
> mailx root

Now before people start mailing security@debian.org suddenly: this
overflow has already been fixed.

Wichert.

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