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One of the first things we did at school when we first saw the UNIX source code was to optimize DES to make a good password cracker (I remember the one used by
by jhallenworld 11y ago
One of the first things we did at school when we first saw the UNIX source code was to optimize DES to make a good password cracker (I remember the one used by the library was very badly written). It was then so easy to try /usr/dict/words on the then non-hidden password file.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agocrack was the standard of its day, could it have been that? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_%28password_software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_%28password_software%29)
- jhallenworld 11y agoNo, we wrote our own. It's not hard.