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One lone password from the original list, Bill Joy's password, is still uncracked as far as I can tell. Bill Joy is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, author o
by cantrevealname 7y ago
One lone password from the original list, Bill Joy's password, is still uncracked as far as I can tell. Bill Joy is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, author of vi, and a key developer of BSD UNIX. He apparently picked the best password.
Here's the /etc/passwd entry:
bill:.2xvLVqGHJm8M:8:10:& Joy,4156424948:/usr/bill:/bin/csh
- Snawoot 7y agoI already checked all passwords made of any printable character up to 7 symbols length. Full 8-symbol bruteforce will take about 120 days on my hardware, so I prioritized passwords with no special symbols first. Does anyone with hashcat and GPGPU want to join me?
- Snawoot 7y agoPreimage found and about to be disclosed: https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/90ffe509-76b5-6629-c55a-7785815fda2e@kilonet.net/ https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/90ffe509-76b5-6629-c55a-7785815f... And yes, again it is related to chess.
- royce 7y agoIt's now been cracked - and now we know why it took so long: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019124.html https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019124.h...