-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Erp wrote:
Basically it would take a beginning word and encrypt it with the same salt as used on the password in the passwd file. So let us say that for an example our salt is aa, our outcome encrypted password is X8mfjs53D ... Ok now let us say that we take this salt of aa and run through the following into it and getting these patterns from it (these aren't the true patterns etc, I'm just making htese things up, but would it be possible?)
salt aa -- inputed password 0001 -- outcome encryption Zkdrj234S salt aa -- inputed password 0002 -- outcome encryption Rksjr342s salt aa -- inputed password 0003 -- outcome encryption 25Svj43zY [rest deleted]
There aren't any known patterns that can be exploited. The output of DES encryption 25 times generates pseudo-random output. If a pattern did exist, cryptanalysis of DES would be very easy. Mark - -- finger -l for PGP key PGP encrypted mail prefered. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMnuMoSzIPc7jvyFpAQFePAgAjOfKSSjpXE20g4+3t6PSz1bD+7tSd5Yi mTjt5zlS/D9NGEXoVkuYI/j7KS+Iic7eNhEUTr8KuUpIS+MUIB0BKHLM0LyaFHmG dgd2LoqVHoC8vEIwFDxXR/vE+Jt51bFXs2/eKksyqJKLrI6g1i+foANLOBhhxobI I07Z+mQ7XEsKe6C7eEuElvd4qY6Zis0WJD7lj/c9tOPg3wjGCIohgeclwgByqBvd 6kuxu9b2unFpbcsaICqtxJiHqgJAWjuE0FEz3wkKakIKAwmDmJ1mpru4dP73OwCc qt5TCytlKq7VN75QawK/YlNX3h24QnyXB/Zo6MOSQCcYGn7UmB/3nA== =fv2A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----