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Passwords like "HGFIHD" and "AAJMAKAY" look like initialisms. It might be fun to try to decode them. (xxxAKAY on a Xerox PARC disk from the 70s/80s... could it
by jjwiseman 9y ago
Passwords like "HGFIHD" and "AAJMAKAY" look like initialisms. It might be fun to try to decode them. (xxxAKAY on a Xerox PARC disk from the 70s/80s... could it be?)
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- kens 9y agoI should mention that I didn't want to leak someone's actual password (even if it's 40 years old), so I perturbed the passwords slightly. The real password doesn't exactly end in AKAY, so it's not Alan Kay. (Apologies for throwing cold water on your clever idea.)
- pieguy 9y agoThere's a decent chance the passwords you found aren't the actual passwords either, considering how easy it is to generate collisions for the hash function.
- Cyberdog 9y agoRead a bit further on. The algorithm has a flaw where some of the first bits from the password are unused. "AAJMAKAY" was a working password that the author's brute force script found, but the "real" password probably had different characters at the beginning.