Impact of Netscape kernel hole (fwd)
Igor Chudov @ home
ichudov at Algebra.COM
Mon Jun 23 20:21:57 PDT 1997
Paul Bradley wrote:
> Joe "slightly crypto-savvy pgp user" sixpack keeps his pgp keyring in
> c:\pgp on a dos/w95 box. The average user of any of the unices keeps his
> keyring in /usr/pgp or /usr/local/pgp it does not take a lot of attempts
> to go through most of the common places.
>
> The very same guy probably has a password that is:
>
> A. FRED (notice how close the letters are, this is a real dumb-ass
> password of the century)
>
> B. His wifes name
>
> C. Her birthday
>
> D. The name of his favourite film or some character from it...
>
> Can you say "dictionary attack"???.
Can you say "idiots have to pay"?
- Igor.
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