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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: Re: Attack on DES paper and CRACK

Re: Attack on DES paper and CRACK

(krsulcs.purdue.edu)
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:14:47 -0500 

In a message on Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:00:56 -0600, Robert Moskowitz writes:
 =>
 =>>I suspect that you don't really need CRACK for this but instead could
 =>>simply use a script that checks the selected password's quality before
 =>>it is encrypted, assuming that I read the application right. A perl
 =>>script to do this is an extended example in the Perl book by Larry
 =>>Wall. You can find the code for all the examples in the book on
 =>>ftp.uu.net, and I believe there is a Perl available for PCs, so that
 =>>would more or less handle the problem for you guys.
 =>
 =>But the response on ftp.uu.net is terrible.  I have not found these.  Can
 =>anyone point me to another source of these?
 =>
 =>Robert Moskowitz
 =>Chrysler Corporation
 =>(810) 758-8212