Re: Small Bug
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:02:33AM -0500, Guy's Account wrote:
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> Therefore it is a quadratic problem to attack the machine externally.
> Except for a small subset of the user names you are forced to guess
> username + password pairs.
To close the case I make the following suggestion: Double the length of the
passwords from eight to sixteen. This has the same effect.
Thanks,
Marcus
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