Re: Password encryption

To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Password encryption
From: Greg Wooledge <wooledge@kellnet.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:24:25 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 19991103222425.C698@dwarf.local>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19991103174829.B5652@desktop.ourmanpann.com>; from pann@ourmanpann.com on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:48:29PM -0800
References: <[🔎] 19991102141813.A1447@linhax.dhs.org> <[🔎] 3820C9FD.57C079D6@bdsinc.com> <jjorgens@bdsinc.com> <[🔎] 199911040040.AAA18244@linda.lfix.co.uk> <[🔎] 19991103174829.B5652@desktop.ourmanpann.com>

Pann McCuaig (pann@ourmanpann.com) wrote:

> What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
> for that purpose?

It is most certainly not decryption.  We usually call it "cracking",
or more specifically, "brute-force cracking".

-- 
Greg Wooledge                    | "Truth belongs to everybody."
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