Laszlo Vecsey writes:

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Eric Murray wrote:

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Fyodor Yarochkin writes:

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Anyone has any success in breaking this? -f

Many people have tried breaking the cipher, I have not heard of anyone being successful.

There is however a number of programs that attempt a brute-force of passwords, the best is called 'crack' and is written by Alec Muffet.

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From Applied Cryptography (2nd edition) I got the impression that it has been cracked. Do a netsearch for "Crypt Breakers Workbench", its a freeware program that attempts to do just that.

Different crypt. That's crypt(1), a modification of the Enigma algorithim. UNIX passwords use crypt(3), a modified DES. Yea, the names are confusing. -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF